# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第八十七条の二 (Article 87-2) - 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: 第八十七条の二 (Article 87-2) — address `art-87-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条の二 art-87-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2 **第一項** 専門職大学の課程は、これを前期二年の前期課程及び後期二年の後期課程又は前期三年の前期課程及び後期一年の後期課程（前条第一項ただし書の規定により修業年限を四年を超えるものとする学部にあつては、前期二年の前期課程及び後期二年以上の後期課程又は前期三年の前期課程及び後期一年以上の後期課程）に区分することができる。 art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-1 Courses in professional and vocational universities may be sectioned into 2 years of lower courses in the lower period and 2 years of upper courses in the upper period, or 3 years of lower courses in the lower period and 1 year of upper courses in the upper period (For faculties which are to have a course term exceeding 4 years pursuant to the provisions of the proviso in paragraph (1) of the preceding article; 2 years of lower courses in the lower period and 2 years or more of upper courses in the upper period, or 3 years of lower courses in the lower period and 1 year or more of upper courses in the upper period). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 専門職大学の前期課程における教育は、第八十三条の二第一項に規定する目的のうち、専門性が求められる職業を担うための実践的かつ応用的な能力を育成することを実現するために行われるものとする。 art-87-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-2 Education in the lower courses of professional and vocational universities is to be provided in order to realize the nurturing of applied and practical abilities to take up occupations requiring professional expertise, among the purposes provided for in Article 83-2, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 専門職大学の後期課程における教育は、前期課程における教育の基礎の上に、第八十三条の二第一項に規定する目的を実現するために行われるものとする。 art-87-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-3 Education in the upper courses of professional and vocational universities is to be provided on a foundation of education in the lower courses, in order to realize the purpose provided for in Article 83-2, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項の規定により前期課程及び後期課程に区分された専門職大学の課程においては、当該前期課程を修了しなければ、当該前期課程から当該後期課程に進学することができないものとする。 art-87-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-4 For courses for professional and vocational universities that are sectioned into lower courses and upper courses pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), it may not be possible to advance from the relevant lower courses to the relevant upper courses without completing the relevant lower courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-87-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 学校教育法 第八十七条第一項 (Article 87, paragraph (1)), art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-1 - art-87-2/par-2: 第八十三条の二第一項 → 学校教育法 第八十三条の二第一項 (Article 83-2, paragraph (1)), art-83-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-83-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83-2/par-1 - art-87-2/par-3: 第八十三条の二第一項 → 学校教育法 第八十三条の二第一項 (Article 83-2, paragraph (1)), art-83-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-83-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83-2/par-1 - art-87-2/par-4: 第一項 → 学校教育法 第八十七条の二第一項 (Article 87-2, paragraph (1)), art-87-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第八十七条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-4 - 学校教育法 第百四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-104/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-104/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