# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百六十一条 (Article 961) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-961. 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: 第九百六十一条 (Article 961)（代表社債権者等の特別背任罪） — address `art-961` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-961 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-961 - 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. --- ### 第九百六十一条（代表社債権者等の特別背任罪） — (Crime of an Aggravated Breach of Trust by a Representative Bondholder) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-961 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-961 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-961 **第一項** 代表社債権者又は決議執行者（第七百三十七条第二項に規定する決議執行者をいう。以下同じ。）が、自己若しくは第三者の利益を図り又は社債権者に損害を加える目的で、その任務に背く行為をし、社債権者に財産上の損害を加えたときは、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-961/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-961/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-961/par-1 When a representative bondholder or a resolution administrator (meaning the resolution administrator prescribed in Article 737, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter), for the purpose of promoting the person's own interest or the interest of a third party or inflicting damage on a bondholder, commits an act in breach of the person's duties and causes financial damages to the bondholder, the person is punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than five million yen, or both. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-961/par-1: 第七百三十七条第二項 → 会社法 第七百三十七条第二項 (Article 737, paragraph (2)), art-737/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-737/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-737/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百六十二条第一項（未遂罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-962/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-962/par-1 - 会社法 第九百六十七条第一項第二号（取締役等の贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-967/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-967/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第九百七十一条第一項（国外犯） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-971/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-971/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十二条第一項（法人における罰則の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-972/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-972/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch companies-act-20260917T143643-001, translated 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17