# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第七十二条 (Article 72) - 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: 第七十二条 (Article 72) — address `art-72` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-72 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条 art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-72 **第一項** 特別支援学校は、視覚障害者、聴覚障害者、知的障害者、肢体不自由者又は病弱者（身体虚弱者を含む。以下同じ。）に対して、幼稚園、小学校、中学校又は高等学校に準ずる教育を施すとともに、障害による学習上又は生活上の困難を克服し自立を図るために必要な知識技能を授けることを目的とする。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-72/par-1 The purpose of special needs education schools is to provide education equivalent to kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, or high school towards persons with visual impairment, persons with hearing impairment, persons with intellectual disability, persons with physical disability, or persons with health impairment (this includes persons with constitutional weakness; the same applies below), and to bestow knowledge and skills necessary in order to overcome hardships in life or learning due to disabilities, and achieving independence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-73/par-1 - 学校教育法 第七十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-74/par-1 - 学校教育法 第七十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-75/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