# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31) — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条 art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-31 **第一項** 小学校においては、前条第一項の規定による目標の達成に資するよう、教育指導を行うに当たり、児童の体験的な学習活動、特にボランティア活動など社会奉仕体験活動、自然体験活動その他の体験活動の充実に努めるものとする。この場合において、社会教育関係団体その他の関係団体及び関係機関との連携に十分配慮しなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-31/par-1 In elementary school, in order to contribute to the achievement of objectives under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, efforts are to be made towards the enhancement of experiential study activities for pupils, especially volunteering activities, social service experience activities, nature-based experiential activities, and other experiential activities, when providing educational guidance. In this case, sufficient considerations must be given towards the collaboration between organizations relating to social education, and other bodies and institutions concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 前条第一項 → 学校教育法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第四十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49/par-1 - 学校教育法 第四十九条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-49-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-8/par-1 - 学校教育法 第六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-62/par-1 - 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-1 - 学校教育法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-82/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