# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百二十五条 (Article 125) - 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: 第百二十五条 (Article 125) — address `art-125` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125 - 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. --- ### 第百二十五条 art-125 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125 **第一項** 専修学校には、高等課程、専門課程又は一般課程を置く。 art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-1 Specialized training colleges will have upper secondary courses, post-secondary courses, or general courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 専修学校の高等課程においては、中学校若しくはこれに準ずる学校若しくは義務教育学校を卒業した者若しくは中等教育学校の前期課程を修了した者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところによりこれと同等以上の学力があると認められた者に対して、中学校における教育の基礎の上に、心身の発達に応じて前条の教育を行うものとする。 art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-2 Upper secondary courses in specialized training colleges are to provide education referred to in the preceding Article, in accordance with students' mental and physical development, on a foundation of education in junior high school, to persons who have graduated from junior high school or an equivalent school, or compulsory education school, or persons who have completed the lower courses of secondary education school, or persons who are deemed to have equivalent or greater scholastic ability as provided by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 専修学校の専門課程においては、高等学校若しくはこれに準ずる学校若しくは中等教育学校を卒業した者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところによりこれと同等以上の学力があると認められた者に対して、高等学校における教育の基礎の上に、前条の教育を行うものとする。 art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-3 Post-secondary courses in specialized training colleges are to provide education referred to in the preceding Article, on a foundation of education in high school, to persons who have graduated from high school or an equivalent school or secondary education school, or persons who are deemed to have equivalent or greater scholastic ability as provided by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. machine translation, not official **第四項** 専修学校の一般課程においては、高等課程又は専門課程の教育以外の前条の教育を行うものとする。 art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-125/par-4 General courses in specialized training colleges are to provide education in the preceding Article other than upper secondary course or post-secondary course education. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-125/par-2: 前条 → 学校教育法 第百二十四条 (Article 124), art-124 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124 - art-125/par-3: 前条 → 学校教育法 第百二十四条 (Article 124), art-124 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124 - art-125/par-4: 前条 → 学校教育法 第百二十四条 (Article 124), art-124 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-124 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第百三十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-130/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-130/par-2 - 学校教育法 附則第二条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5061-50/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5061-50/art-2/par-1 - 消費税法 別表第二第十一号ロ — https://japanlaw.org/ja/consumption-tax-act/appdx-2/item-11/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/appdx-2/item-11/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第九十一条の三第一項（都道府県が行う高等学校の生徒に対する学資としての資金の貸付けに係る消費貸借契約書等の印紙税の非課税） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-91-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-91-3/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-20261019T143843-001, 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