# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第七十一条 (Article 71)

- 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71) — address `art-71`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-71
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### 第七十一条
<sup>art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-71</sup>

**第一項**  同一の設置者が設置する中学校及び高等学校においては、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、中等教育学校に準じて、中学校における教育と高等学校における教育を一貫して施すことができる。
<sup>art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-71/par-1</sup>
Junior high schools and high schools established by the same founder may provide education in junior high school and education in high school with consistency, in line with secondary education school, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Junior high schools and high schools established by the same management may provide education in junior high school and education in high school with consistency, in line with secondary education school, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb</sup>

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19
- 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
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 71, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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