# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百二十七条 (Article 127) - 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: 第百二十七条 (Article 127) — address `art-127` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127 - 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. --- ### 第百二十七条 art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127 **第一項** 専修学校は、国及び地方公共団体のほか、次に該当する者でなければ、設置することができない。 art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1 Specialized training colleges may only be established by the national government, local government, and persons falling under the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 専修学校を経営するために必要な経済的基礎を有すること。 art-127/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1/item-1 having the necessary financial basis with which to manage a specialized training college; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 設置者（設置者が法人である場合にあつては、その経営を担当する当該法人の役員とする。次号において同じ。）が専修学校を経営するために必要な知識又は経験を有すること。 art-127/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1/item-2 the founder having the knowledge or experience necessary to manage a specialized training college (if the founder is a corporation, it is to be the officer of the relevant corporation in charge of its management; the same applies in the following item); Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the management having the knowledge or experience necessary to manage a specialized training college (if management is a legal specialist, it is to be the officer of the relevant legal specialist in charge of its management);" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb **三** 設置者が社会的信望を有すること。 art-127/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1/item-3 the founder having the trust of the public. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the management having the trust of the public." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb --- ## Cites - art-127/par-1/item-2: 次号 → 学校教育法 第百二十七条第一項第三号 (Article 127, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-127/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百二十七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-127/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127/par-1/item-2 - 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 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 127, paragraph (1), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 127, paragraph (1), item (iii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 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