Persons who may be enrolled in graduate schools are persons who have graduated from universities as referred to in Article 83, or persons who are deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability pursuant to the provisions of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; provided, however, that when there is a necessity in graduate program education and research, a person possessing a master's degree or a degree prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as provided for in the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (3), or a person who is deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, may qualify for admittance to the relevant graduate program.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, for universities with graduate schools, a person who has been enrolled in the universities referred to in Article 83, as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, for the number of years or more as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (This includes a person prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, as an equivalent to this), and a person found to have obtained the credits prescribed by universities with the relevant graduate schools with excellent grades (This includes a person found to possess equivalent or greater abilities and qualities, on the basis of what is prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as the state of obtaining the relevant credits and what is equivalent to this), may be enrolled in the relevant graduate schools.
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