# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百八十四条 (Article 784) - 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: 第七百八十四条 (Article 784)（吸収合併契約等の承認を要しない場合） — address `art-784` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百八十四条（吸収合併契約等の承認を要しない場合） — (Cases Where Approval of the Absorption-Type Merger Agreement Is Not Required) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-784 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784 **第一項** 前条第一項の規定は、吸収合併存続会社、吸収分割承継会社又は株式交換完全親会社（以下この目において「存続会社等」という。）が消滅株式会社等の特別支配会社である場合には、適用しない。ただし、吸収合併又は株式交換における合併対価等の全部又は一部が譲渡制限株式等である場合であって、消滅株式会社等が公開会社であり、かつ、種類株式発行会社でないときは、この限りでない。 art-784/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784/par-1 The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not apply if the company surviving the absorption-type merger, the company succeeding in the absorption-type split or the wholly owning parent company resulting from the share exchange (hereinafter referred to as the "surviving company, etc." in this division) is the special controlling company of the disappearing stock company, etc.;provided, however, that this does not apply if all or part of the value of the merger, etc. in the absorption-type merger or share exchange is shares with a restriction on transfer, etc., and the disappearing stock company, etc. is a public company and not a company with class shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条の規定は、吸収分割により吸収分割承継会社に承継させる資産の帳簿価額の合計額が吸収分割株式会社の総資産額として法務省令で定める方法により算定される額の五分の一（これを下回る割合を吸収分割株式会社の定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）を超えない場合には、適用しない。 art-784/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Article do not apply if the sum of the book value of the assets that the company succeeding in the absorption-type split succeeds to through the absorption-type company split does not exceed one-fifth (or, if a lesser proportion is prescribed in the articles of incorporation of the stock company splitting in the absorption-type split, that proportion) of the amount calculated by the method specified by Ministry of Justice Order as the total assets of the stock company splitting in the absorption-type split. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-784/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第七百八十三条第一項 (Article 783, paragraph (1)), art-783/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-783/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-783/par-1 - art-784/par-2: 前条 → 会社法 第七百八十三条 (Article 783), art-783 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-783 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-783 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百八十三条第二項（吸収合併契約等の承認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-783/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-783/par-2 - 会社法 第七百八十三条第五項（吸収合併契約等の承認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-783/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-783/par-5 - 会社法 第七百八十四条の二第一項（吸収合併等をやめることの請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784-2/par-1 - 会社法 第七百八十四条の二第一項第二号（吸収合併等をやめることの請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-784-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-784-2/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第七百八十五条第一項第二号（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-785/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-785/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第七百八十五条第二項第二号（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-785/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-785/par-2/item-2 - 会社法 第七百八十五条第三項（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-785/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-785/par-3 --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17