# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第六十九条 (Article 69) - 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69) — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条 art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69 **第一項** 中等教育学校には、校長、教頭、教諭、養護教諭及び事務職員を置かなければならない。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-1 Secondary education schools must have a school principal, vice principal, teachers, yogo teacher, and administrative staff. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 中等教育学校には、前項に規定するもののほか、副校長、主幹教諭、指導教諭、主務教諭、栄養教諭、実習助手、技術職員その他必要な職員を置くことができる。 art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-2 Secondary education schools may have a deputy principal, senior teacher, advanced skill teacher, chief teacher, diet and nutrition teacher, practical training assistant, technical staff, and other necessary staff beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定にかかわらず、副校長を置くときは教頭を、主務教諭（次条第一項において準用する第三十七条第二十項（第二号に係る部分に限る。）の規定により置かれるものを除く。）を置くときは教諭を、養護をつかさどる主幹教諭又は主務教諭を置くときは養護教諭を、それぞれ置かないことができる。 art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-3 Notwithstanding the provision of paragraph (1), it may not be necessary to have a vice principal when there is a deputy principal, a teacher when there is a chief teacher (excluding one placed pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (20) (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (1) of the following Article), and it may not be necessary to have a yogo teacher when there is a senior teacher or chief teacher taking charge of protective care, respectively. machine translation, not official **第四項** 特別の事情のあるときは、第一項の規定にかかわらず、教諭に代えて助教諭又は講師を、養護教諭に代えて養護助教諭を置くことができる。 art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-4 In case of special circumstances, assistant teacher or lecturer may be positioned in place of teachers, and assistant yogo teacher in place of yogo teacher, notwithstanding the provision of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-69/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-1 - art-69/par-3: 第一項 → 学校教育法 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-1 - art-69/par-3: 次条第一項 → 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 (Article 70, paragraph (1)), art-70/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-1 - art-69/par-3: 第三十七条第二十項 → 学校教育法 第三十七条第二十項 (Article 37, paragraph (20)), art-37/par-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-20 - art-69/par-3: 第二号 → 学校教育法 第三十七条第二十項第二号 (Article 37, paragraph (20), item (ii)), art-37/par-20/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-20/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-20/item-2 - art-69/par-4: 第一項 → 学校教育法 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第六十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-2 - 学校教育法 第六十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-3 - 学校教育法 第六十九条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-69/par-4 - 学校教育法 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-3221-26/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-3221-26/art-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T141625-001, translated 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