# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22) — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条 art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-22 **第一項** 幼稚園は、義務教育及びその後の教育の基礎を培うものとして、幼児を保育し、幼児の健やかな成長のために適当な環境を与えて、その心身の発達を助長することを目的とする。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-22/par-1 A kindergarten is to cultivate the foundations for compulsory and further education, provide childcare, provide an appropriate environment for the healthy growth of young children, with the purpose of nurturing their mental and physical development. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第二十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1 - 学校教育法 第二十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-24/par-1 - 学校教育法 第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-25/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