# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百七十三条 (Article 673) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第六百七十三条 (Article 673) — address `art-673` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六百七十三条 art-673 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673 **第一項** 第五百八十条に規定する社員の責任は、清算持分会社の本店の所在地における解散の登記をした後五年以内に請求又は請求の予告をしない清算持分会社の債権者に対しては、その登記後五年を経過した時に消滅する。 art-673/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673/par-1 The liability of the member in Article 580 is extinguished in relation to the creditors of the liquidating membership company who do not state their claims, or do not give advance notice of their claims within five years from the day of the registration of the dissolution at the location of head office of the liquidating membership company, when five years have elapsed from the day of the registration. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の期間の経過後であっても、社員に分配していない残余財産があるときは、清算持分会社の債権者は、清算持分会社に対して弁済を請求することができる。 art-673/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673/par-2 Creditors of the liquidating membership company may demand that the liquidating membership company make the payment, even after the lapse of the period under the preceding paragraph, if there are residual assets not distributed to members. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-673/par-1: 第五百八十条 → 会社法 第五百八十条 (Article 580), art-580 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-580 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-580 - art-673/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百七十三条第一項 (Article 673, paragraph (1)), art-673/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百七十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-673/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-673/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第二項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17