School Education Act
学校教育法
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 56 terms: 18 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 38 in our translation, marked as such.
An evaluation of the overall state of a university's education and research, etc. (教育研究等) that, under Article 109, paragraph (2), the university is to receive at intervals a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, from a body certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (認証評価機関); paragraph (3) adds one for its professional and vocational universities, etc. or professional graduate schools.
A body that has received certification (認証) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to carry out the evaluations of universities (認証評価) under Article 109, paragraph (2).
通信制の課程
A course of a high school (高等学校), including the upper course of a secondary education school (中等教育学校), that educates by correspondence.
保護者
The person who exercises parental authority (親権) over a child or, where no one does, the child's guardian of a minor (未成年後見人); Article 16 makes this person responsible for having the child receive nine years of general education.
子に対して親権を行う者（親権を行う者のないときは、未成年後見人）
A public university corporation as Article 68, paragraph (1) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act defines it: a general local incorporated administrative agency (一般地方独立行政法人) that carries out the business Article 21, item (ii) of that Act lists — setting up and running a university, or a university and a college of technology (高等専門学校), and the investment and support that item names; Article 2, paragraph (1) counts it as a local government (地方公共団体) among those who may set up a school.
定時制の課程
A course of a high school (高等学校), including the upper course of a secondary education school (中等教育学校), that holds its classes at night or at other special times or periods.
全日制の課程
The ordinary course (通常の課程) of a high school (高等学校), including the upper course of a secondary education school (中等教育学校).
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
審議会等
A council or similar body as Article 8 of the National Government Organization Act provides: a body of several members that a national administrative organ may set up under an Act (法律) or Cabinet Order (政令) to study and deliberate important matters, review appeals, or handle other affairs best decided together by people of learning and experience; Article 34, paragraph (5) leaves to Cabinet Order the one that studies textbooks submitted for authorization (検定).
国家行政組織法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十号）第八条に規定する機関
The standards a certified evaluation agency (認証評価機関) sets for carrying out the certified evaluations (認証評価) of Article 109, paragraphs (2) and (3), which those evaluations follow.
前二項の認証評価を行うために認証評価機関が定める基準
An incorporated educational institution as Article 3 of the Private Schools Act defines it: a corporation established under that Act for the purpose of setting up a private school; Article 2, paragraph (1) lets only it, the national government and local governments set up a school.
教科用図書
In Article 34, a textbook of the kind paragraph (1) requires elementary schools to use: one that has passed the authorization (検定) of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or one whose authorship is in the name of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
In Chapter 11 (specialized training colleges, 専修学校), a post-secondary course (専門課程) that meets the standards the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology sets, among them a course term of two years or more; only a specialized training college with one may have an advanced course (専攻科).
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 80 of 2006 amended it.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised related laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, the Acts (法律) that Act amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under them.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised related laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, the Acts (法律) that Act amended, as they stood before it amended them, together with the orders made under them.
A professional and vocational university (専門職大学) — a university for teaching and researching specialized arts in depth and developing the practical and applied abilities to carry out occupations requiring expertise, as Article 83-2 provides — or a professional and vocational junior college (専門職短期大学) under Article 108, paragraph (4).
専門職大学又は第百八条第四項に規定する目的をその目的とする大学（第百四条第五項及び第六項において「専門職短期大学」という。）
In Article 104, paragraphs (5) and (6), a junior college (短期大学) — a university with a course term of two or three years under Article 108, paragraph (2) — whose purpose is to teach and research specialized arts in depth and develop the practical and applied abilities to carry out occupations requiring expertise, as Article 108, paragraph (4) provides.
短期大学
In Article 104, a university under Article 108, paragraph (2): one whose main purpose, in place of the purpose Article 83, paragraph (1) sets for universities, is to teach and research specialized arts in depth and develop the abilities needed for work or practical life, and whose course term is two or three years.
The education and research, organization and management, and facilities and equipment of a university, whose state Article 109, paragraph (1) requires the university to inspect and evaluate itself, publishing the results.
What a certified evaluation (認証評価) under Article 109 examines: under paragraph (2), the overall state of a university's education and research, organization and management, and facilities and equipment (教育研究等), and under paragraph (3), the state of the curricula, teaching staff organization and other education and research activities of its professional and vocational universities, etc. (専門職大学等) or professional graduate schools (専門職大学院).
第二項に規定する大学の教育研究等の総合的な状況及び第三項に規定する専門職大学等又は専門職大学院の教育課程、教員組織その他教育研究活動の状況
In Article 128, items (i) to (iii), the students (生徒) of a specialized training college's (専修学校) upper secondary courses (高等課程) and general courses (一般課程), and the students (学生) of its post-secondary courses (専門課程).
高等課程及び一般課程の生徒並びに専門課程の学生
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
The establishment or abolition of a school, a change of its founder (設置者), and other matters a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies: the matters for which Article 4, paragraph (1) requires approval (認可), and of which Article 4-2 requires a municipality (市町村) to notify the prefectural board of education in advance for a kindergarten it sets up.
The matters a recommendation of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under Article 15, paragraph (1) concerns, made to a public or private university or college of technology that the Minister finds in breach of laws and regulations (法令) on its facilities, classes or other matters.
A certified evaluation agency's (認証評価機関) finding that a university's state of education and research (教育研究等状況) conforms to the university evaluation standards (大学評価基準); under Article 109, paragraph (7), the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology asks a university that does not receive it for reports or materials on that state.
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
This Act as amended by Act No. 110 of 1964.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 110 of 1964 amended it.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
In Chapter 4 (prevention of abuse of enrolled children, 入園児虐待の防止等) of the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children, as Article 28, paragraph (2) applies it to kindergartens (幼稚園), a young child (幼児) enrolled in a kindergarten.
幼稚園に在籍する幼児
専門的な知識を有する者
In Chapter 4 (prevention of abuse of enrolled children, 入園児虐待の防止等) of the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children, as Article 28, paragraph (2) applies it to kindergartens (幼稚園), the persons with expert knowledge of education, medicine, psychology, welfare or law whom the competent administrative authority (所管行政庁) designates in advance; for a kindergarten they take the place of the council (審議会等) to which that authority reports the measures it has taken on abuse and which may give it opinions.
広域の通信制の課程
In Article 54, paragraph (3), a high school correspondence course (通信制の課程) that takes as its students people living in other prefectures across the country as well as people living in the prefecture where the school is, or another correspondence course a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
In Article 93, paragraph (3), a university's principal (学長), the deans of its faculties (学部長) and the heads of the other units in it that have a faculty council (教授会).
This Act as amended by Act No. 166 of 1961.
This Act as it stood before Act No. 166 of 1961 amended it.
The date Act No. 55 of 1983, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Cabinet Orders (政令) under the National Government Organization Act, or under the related Acts as amended by the 1983 amending law (Act No. 78 of 1983), by which certain government bodies are to be set up.
The date Act No. 25 of 1991, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
The date Act No. 61 of 2011, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2014, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 6 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In Article 7, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2014, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 6 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 50 of 2015, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 6 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 5 of its supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 8 provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 50 of 2015, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 6 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on that day, as made under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 5 of its supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 8 provide otherwise.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, an approval or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as these supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 9 of them provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 47 of 2016, an application for an approval or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as these supplementary provisions or a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 9 of them provide otherwise.
The date Act No. 41 of 2017, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
The date Act No. 50 of 2024, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.