# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第八十八条 (Article 88) - 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: 第八十八条 (Article 88)（法人格） — address `art-88` - 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-88 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条（法人格） — (Legal Personality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88 **第一項** 金融商品会員制法人は、法人とする。 art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88/par-1 A financial instruments membership corporation is to be a corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 金融商品会員制法人は、その名称のうちに会員制法人という文字を用いなければならない。 art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88/par-2 A financial instruments membership corporation must use the Japanese characters 会員制法人 (pronounced "kaiinsei hojin", meaning "membership corporation ") in its name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 金融商品会員制法人でない者は、その名称のうちに金融商品会員制法人であると誤認されるおそれのある文字を用いてはならない。 art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88/par-3 A person that is not a financial instruments membership corporation must not use a term in its name which could give rise to the misconception that it is a financial instruments membership corporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二百八条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-208-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-208-3/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