# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百二十四条 (Article 124) - Law: 学校教育法 (School Education Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二十六号 - English title "School Education 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: 第百二十四条 (Article 124) — address `art-124` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十四条 art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124 **第一項** 第一条に掲げるもの以外の教育施設で、職業若しくは実際生活に必要な能力を育成し、又は教養の向上を図ることを目的として次の各号に該当する組織的な教育を行うもの（当該教育を行うにつき他の法律に特別の規定があるもの及び我が国に居住する外国人を専ら対象とするものを除く。）は、専修学校とする。 art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124/par-1 Specialized training colleges are to be educational facilities other than those stated in Article 1, providing organizational education falling under each of the following items, with a purpose of nurturing abilities necessary for occupation or actual life, or working to improve cultural education (except what is provided by other laws for providing the relevant education, and what is exclusively targeting foreign nationals residing in our country): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 修業年限が一年以上であること。 art-124/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124/par-1/item-1 the course term being 1 year or more; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 授業時数又は単位数が文部科学大臣の定める授業時数又は単位数以上であること。 art-124/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124/par-1/item-2 the number of class hours or credits being equal to or more than the number of class hours or credits specified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; machine translation, not official **三** 教育を受ける者が常時四十人以上であること。 art-124/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-124/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124/par-1/item-3 there being regularly 40 or more persons receiving education. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-124/par-1: 第一条 → 学校教育法 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-1 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第百二十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-2 - 学校教育法 第百二十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-3 - 学校教育法 第百二十五条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-4 - 学校教育法 第百三十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-130/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-130/par-2 - 学校教育法 第百三十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-134/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-134/par-1 - 学校教育法 附則第二条第一項（各種学校等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-3501-59/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-3501-59/art-2/par-1 - 所得税法 第二条第一項第三十二号ロ（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/income-tax-act/art-2/par-1/item-32/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-2/par-1/item-32/sub-2 - 消費税法 別表第二第十一号ロ — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/appdx-2/item-11/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/appdx-2/item-11/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第七十条の二の二第二項第一号イ（直系尊属から教育資金の一括贈与を受けた場合の贈与税の非課税） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-70-2-2/par-2/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-70-2-2/par-2/item-1/sub-1 - 租税特別措置法 第九十一条の三第一項（都道府県が行う高等学校の生徒に対する学資としての資金の貸付けに係る消費貸借契約書等の印紙税の非課税） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-91-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-91-3/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十九条第一項第七号ロ（納付金関係業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-49/par-1/item-7/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-49/par-1/item-7/sub-2 - 雇用保険法 第六条第一項第四号（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-6/par-1/item-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 学校教育法 — the text in force from 2026-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000026/20260617_508AC0000000037), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T141625-001, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19