# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二条 (Article 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: 第二条 (Article 2) — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-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. --- ### 第二条 art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2 **第一項** 学校は、国（国立大学法人法（平成十五年法律第百十二号）第二条第一項に規定する国立大学法人及び独立行政法人国立高等専門学校機構を含む。以下同じ。）、地方公共団体（地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第六十八条第一項に規定する公立大学法人（以下「公立大学法人」という。）を含む。次項及び第百二十七条において同じ。）及び私立学校法（昭和二十四年法律第二百七十号）第三条に規定する学校法人（以下「学校法人」という。）のみが、これを設置することができる。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2/par-1 Schools may only be established by the national government (including the national university corporation provided in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the National University Corporations Act (Act No. 112 of 2003), and Institute of National Colleges of Technology, Incorporated Administrative Agency; the same applies below), local government (including public university corporations provided for in Article 68, paragraph (1) of the Local Incorporated Administrative Agency Act (Act No. 118 of 2003) (referred to below as "public university corporations"); the same applies in the following paragraph and Article 127), and incorporated educational institutions provided in Article 3 of the Private Schools Act (Act No. 270 of 1949) (referred to below as "incorporated educational institutions") Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この法律で、国立学校とは、国の設置する学校を、公立学校とは、地方公共団体の設置する学校を、私立学校とは、学校法人の設置する学校をいう。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2/par-2 In this Act, national school means schools established by the national government, public school means schools established by the local government, and private school means schools established by the incorporated educational institution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-1: 国立大学法人法（平成十五年法律第百十二号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 415AC0000000112, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-2/par-1: 地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第六十八条第一項 → e-Gov law 415AC0000000118, 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-2/par-1: 次項 → 学校教育法 第二条第二項 (Article 2, paragraph (2)), art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2/par-2 - art-2/par-1: 第百二十七条 → 学校教育法 第百二十七条 (Article 127), art-127 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-127 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-127 - art-2/par-1: 私立学校法（昭和二十四年法律第二百七十号）第三条 → e-Gov law 324AC0000000270, 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-2/par-1 - 学校教育法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-3221-26/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-3221-26/art-6/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