# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百三十一条 (Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Article 131) — address `art-131` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-131 - 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. --- ### 第百三十一条 art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-131 **第一項** 国又は都道府県（都道府県が単独で又は他の地方公共団体と共同して設立する公立大学法人を含む。）が設置する専修学校を除くほか、専修学校の設置者は、その設置する専修学校の名称、位置又は学則を変更しようとするときその他政令で定める場合に該当するときは、市町村の設置する専修学校にあつては都道府県の教育委員会に、私立の専修学校にあつては都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。 art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-131/par-1 The founder of a specialized training college must notify the prefectural board of education for specialized training colleges established by municipalities, and the prefectural governor for private specialized training colleges when intending to change the name, location or code of the school of the established specialized training college, or when falling under other cases prescribed by Cabinet Order, except specialized training colleges established by the national government or prefectures (this includes public university corporations established independently by prefectures or in cooperation with other local governments). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The management of specialized training colleges must notify the prefectural board of education for specialized training colleges established by municipalities, and the prefectural governor for private specialized training colleges when intending to change the name, location or code of the school of the established specialized training college, or when falling under other cases prescribed by Cabinet Order, except specialized training colleges established by the national government or prefectures (this includes public university corporations established independently by prefectures or in cooperation with other local governments)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第四条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-4/par-1/item-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 131, paragraph (1) — 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