# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百二十五条の二 (Article 125-2) - 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: 第百二十五条の二 (Article 125-2) — address `art-125-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125-2 - 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. --- ### 第百二十五条の二 art-125-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125-2 **第一項** 専修学校（修業年限が二年以上であることその他の文部科学大臣の定める基準を満たす専門課程（以下この章において「特定専門課程」という。）を置くものに限る。）には、専攻科を置くことができる。 art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125-2/par-1 Specialized training colleges (limited to those having post-secondary courses (referred to as "specified post-secondary courses" in this Chapter) that have a course term of two years or more and meet the other standards specified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) may have diploma courses. machine translation, not official **第二項** 専修学校の専攻科は、専修学校の特定専門課程を修了した者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところによりこれと同等以上の学力があると認められた者に対して、精深な程度において、特別の事項を教授し、その研究を指導することを目的とし、その修業年限は、一年以上とする。 art-125-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-125-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125-2/par-2 Diploma courses of specialized training colleges are to have the purpose of teaching specialized matters, to a deep and detailed extent, as well as instructing research, to persons who have completed a specified post-secondary course of a specialized training college, or persons deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the course term is to be one year or more. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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-20261019T143843-001, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-001, 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