# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百二十条 (Article 820) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820. 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: 第八百二十条 (Article 820)（日本に住所を有する日本における代表者の退任） — address `art-820` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820 - 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. --- ### 第八百二十条（日本に住所を有する日本における代表者の退任） — (Resignation of Representatives in Japan Whose Addresses Are in Japan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-820 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820 **第一項** 外国会社の登記をした外国会社は、日本における代表者（日本に住所を有するものに限る。）の全員が退任しようとするときは、当該外国会社の債権者に対し異議があれば一定の期間内にこれを述べることができる旨を官報に公告し、かつ、知れている債権者には、各別にこれを催告しなければならない。ただし、当該期間は、一箇月を下ることができない。 art-820/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-1 A foreign company that has completed registration of a foreign company may, when all of its representatives in Japan (limited to those whose addresses are in Japan) intend to resign, give public notice to creditors of the foreign company to the effect that they are able to state their objections, if any, during a certain period of time and must give notice separately to each known creditor, if any; provided, however, that relevant period may not be less than one month. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 債権者が前項の期間内に異議を述べたときは、同項の外国会社は、当該債権者に対し、弁済し、若しくは相当の担保を提供し、又は当該債権者に弁済を受けさせることを目的として信託会社等に相当の財産を信託しなければならない。ただし、同項の退任をしても当該債権者を害するおそれがないときは、この限りでない。 art-820/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-2 If creditors raise objections within the period under the preceding paragraph, the foreign company set forth in that paragraph must make payment or provide reasonable security to relevant creditors, or entrust equivalent property to a trust company, etc. for the purpose of having relevant creditors receive the payment; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is no risk of harm to relevant creditors by the resignation set forth in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の退任は、前二項の手続が終了した後にその登記をすることによって、その効力を生ずる。 art-820/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-3 The resignation set forth in paragraph (1) becomes effective by completing the registration thereof after the completion of the procedures set forth in the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-820/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八百二十条第一項 (Article 820, paragraph (1)), art-820/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-1 - art-820/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第八百二十条第一項 (Article 820, paragraph (1)), art-820/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-1 - art-820/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第八百二十条第二項 (Article 820, paragraph (2)), art-820/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百二十条第二項（日本に住所を有する日本における代表者の退任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-2 - 会社法 第八百二十条第三項（日本に住所を有する日本における代表者の退任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-820/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-820/par-3 - 会社法 第八百二十二条第四項（日本にある外国会社の財産についての清算） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-822/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-822/par-4 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第二十六号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-26 - 銀行法 第五十一条第四項（外国銀行支店の清算） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-51/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-51/par-4 --- ## 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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17