# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第百五十六条の二十三 (Article 156-23) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange 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: 第百五十六条の二十三 (Article 156-23)（最低資本金の額） — address `art-156-23` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-23 - 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. --- ### 第百五十六条の二十三（最低資本金の額） — (Minimum Amount of Stated Capital) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-156-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-23 **第一項** 証券金融会社は、資本金の額が次条第一項に規定する業務を行うため必要かつ適当なものとして政令で定める金額以上の株式会社でなければならない。 art-156-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-23/par-1 A securities finance company must be a stock company whose amount of stated capital exceeds the amount that is specified by Cabinet Order as being necessary and appropriate in order for it to perform the business prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-156-23/par-1: 次条第一項 → 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十四第一項 (Article 156-24, paragraph (1)), art-156-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-24/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の二十五第二項第一号（免許審査基準） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-25/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-25/par-2/item-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十六条の三十七第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-156-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-156-37/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22