# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第四十六条 (Article 46)

- 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46) — address `art-46`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
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### 第四十六条
<sup>art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-46</sup>

**第一項**  中学校における教育は、前条に規定する目的を実現するため、第二十一条各号に掲げる目標を達成するよう行われるものとする。
<sup>art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-46/par-1</sup>
Education in junior high school is to be provided with the aim of achieving the objectives stated in each item of Article 21, in order to realize the purpose provided in the preceding Article.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Education in junior high school is to be provided with the aim of achieving the objectives stated in each item of Article 21, in order to realize the purpose provided in the preceding Articles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb</sup>

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## Cites
- art-46/par-1: 前条 → 学校教育法 第四十五条 (Article 45), art-45 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-45
- art-46/par-1: 第二十一条 → 学校教育法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-21

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 学校教育法 第四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-48/par-1
- 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

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19
- 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
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 46, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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