# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23) — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条 art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23 **第一項** 幼稚園における教育は、前条に規定する目的を実現するため、次に掲げる目標を達成するよう行われるものとする。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1 Education in kindergarten is to be provided with the aim of achieving the following purposes, in order to realize the objectives provided in the preceding Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 健康、安全で幸福な生活のために必要な基本的な習慣を養い、身体諸機能の調和的発達を図ること。 art-23/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1/item-1 nurturing basic habits necessary for a healthy, safe, and happy life, and promoting the harmonious development of various bodily functions; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 集団生活を通じて、喜んでこれに参加する態度を養うとともに家族や身近な人への信頼感を深め、自主、自律及び協同の精神並びに規範意識の芽生えを養うこと。 art-23/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1/item-2 nurturing an attitude of participation, deepening a sense of trust towards family and familiar people, and developing the formation of independence, discipline, a cooperative spirit, and normative consciousness, through group living; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 身近な社会生活、生命及び自然に対する興味を養い、それらに対する正しい理解と態度及び思考力の芽生えを養うこと。 art-23/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1/item-3 nurturing interest towards familiar social life, life and nature, and developing the formation of a correct understanding, attitude, and ability to think towards them; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 日常の会話や、絵本、童話等に親しむことを通じて、言葉の使い方を正しく導くとともに、相手の話を理解しようとする態度を養うこと。 art-23/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1/item-4 guiding towards the correct use of words, and nurturing an attitude of intention to understand others' words, through daily conversation, and familiarizing with picture books and stories, etc.; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 音楽、身体による表現、造形等に親しむことを通じて、豊かな感性と表現力の芽生えを養うこと。 art-23/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-23/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-23/par-1/item-5 nurturing rich feelings and the ability to express oneself, through familiarizing with music, physical expression and creating things, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 前条 → 学校教育法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-22 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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