# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第四十九条の六 (Article 49-6) - 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: 第四十九条の六 (Article 49-6) — address `art-49-6` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-6 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条の六 art-49-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-6 **第一項** 義務教育学校の前期課程における教育は、第四十九条の二に規定する目的のうち、心身の発達に応じて、義務教育として行われる普通教育のうち基礎的なものを施すことを実現するために必要な程度において第二十一条各号に掲げる目標を達成するよう行われるものとする。 art-49-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-6/par-1 Education in the lower courses of compulsory education school is to be provided with the aim of achieving the objectives stated in each item of Article 21, from among the purposes provided in Article 49-2, as required in order to realize provision of the fundamentals of regular education provided as compulsory education, in accordance with children's mental and physical development. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 義務教育学校の後期課程における教育は、第四十九条の二に規定する目的のうち、前期課程における教育の基礎の上に、心身の発達に応じて、義務教育として行われる普通教育を施すことを実現するため、第二十一条各号に掲げる目標を達成するよう行われるものとする。 art-49-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-6/par-2 Education in the upper courses of compulsory education school is to be provided with aim of achieving the objectives stated in each item of Article 21, from among the purposes provided in Article 49-2, in order to realize the provision of regular education provided as compulsory education, on a foundation of education in the lower courses, in accordance with students' mental and physical development. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-49-6/par-1: 第四十九条の二 → 学校教育法 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2), art-49-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-2 - art-49-6/par-1: 第二十一条 → 学校教育法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-21 - art-49-6/par-2: 第四十九条の二 → 学校教育法 第四十九条の二 (Article 49-2), art-49-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-2 - art-49-6/par-2: 第二十一条 → 学校教育法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-21 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第四十九条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-49-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-7/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