# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - 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: 第五十条 (Article 50) — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条 art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-50 **第一項** 高等学校は、中学校における教育の基礎の上に、心身の発達及び進路に応じて、高度な普通教育及び専門教育を施すことを目的とする。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-50/par-1 The purpose of high school is to provide high-level professional education and regular education, in accordance with the students' mental and physical development and career, on a foundation of education in junior high school. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 第三条第一項第九号ロ（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-3/par-1/item-9/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-3/par-1/item-9/sub-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第十二条第一項第五号ロ（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-12/par-1/item-5/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-12/par-1/item-5/sub-2 - 国民年金法 第九十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90/par-1 - 学校教育法 第五十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-51/par-1 - 学校教育法 第五十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-52/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