# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百三十五条 (Article 135) - 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: 第百三十五条 (Article 135) — address `art-135` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-135 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-135 - 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. --- ### 第百三十五条 art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-135 **第一項** 専修学校、各種学校その他第一条に掲げるもの以外の教育施設は、同条に掲げる学校の名称又は大学院の名称を用いてはならない。 art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-135/par-1 Specialized training colleges, miscellaneous schools, and other educational facilities other than those stated in Article 1, may not use the title of schools stated in that Article or the title of graduate school. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 高等課程を置く専修学校以外の教育施設は高等専修学校の名称を、専門課程を置く専修学校以外の教育施設は専門学校の名称を、専修学校以外の教育施設は専修学校の名称を用いてはならない。 art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-135/par-2 Educational facilities other than specialized training colleges with upper secondary courses may not use the title of upper secondary specialized training school, educational facilities other than specialized training colleges with post-secondary courses may not use the title of professional training college, and educational facilities other than specialized training colleges may not use the title of specialized training college. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-135/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 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第百四十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-146/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-146/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19