# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) - 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54) — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条 art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54 **第一項** 高等学校には、全日制の課程又は定時制の課程のほか、通信制の課程を置くことができる。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-1 High schools may have correspondence courses, beyond full-time courses or part-time courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 高等学校には、通信制の課程のみを置くことができる。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-2 High schools may only have correspondence courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 市（指定都市を除く。以下この項において同じ。）町村（市町村が単独で又は他の市町村と共同して設立する公立大学法人を含む。）の設置する高等学校については都道府県の教育委員会、私立の高等学校については都道府県知事は、高等学校の通信制の課程のうち、当該高等学校の所在する都道府県の区域内に住所を有する者のほか、全国的に他の都道府県の区域内に住所を有する者を併せて生徒とするものその他政令で定めるもの（以下この項において「広域の通信制の課程」という。）に係る第四条第一項に規定する認可（政令で定める事項に係るものに限る。）を行うときは、あらかじめ、文部科学大臣に届け出なければならない。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。）又は指定都市（指定都市が単独で又は他の指定都市若しくは市町村と共同して設立する公立大学法人を含む。）の設置する高等学校の広域の通信制の課程について、当該都道府県又は指定都市の教育委員会（公立大学法人の設置する高等学校にあつては、当該公立大学法人）がこの項前段の政令で定める事項を行うときも、同様とする。 art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-3 For high schools established by municipalities (except designated cities; the same applies below in this paragraph) (this includes public university corporations established independently by municipalities or in cooperation with other municipalities); the prefectural board of education, and for private high schools; the prefectural governor, must give notice in advance to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, when granting approval provided in Article 4, paragraph (1) (limited to what is stated in matters prescribed by Cabinet Order) to persons of high school correspondence courses whom have address in the jurisdictional district of the prefectures where the relevant high school is located, and whom have address in the jurisdictional district within other prefectures nationwide, both of which are to be referred to as students, as well as other matters prescribed by Cabinet Order (referred to below in this paragraph as "extensive correspondence courses"). When the board of education of the relevant prefectures or designated cities (in the case of high schools established by public university corporation; the relevant public university corporation) carry out the matters prescribed by Cabinet Order in the first sentence of this paragraph, the same applies to extensive correspondence courses of high schools established by prefectures (this includes public university corporations established independently by prefectures or in cooperation with other municipalities.) or designated cities (this includes public university corporations established independently by designated cities or in cooperation with other designated cities or municipalities). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 通信制の課程に関し必要な事項は、文部科学大臣が、これを定める。 art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-4 Necessary matters regarding correspondence courses are to be prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54/par-3: この項 → 学校教育法 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-3 - art-54/par-3: 第四条第一項 → 学校教育法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第五十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-54/par-3 - 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-1 - 学校教育法 第七十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-2 --- ## 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