# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68) — address `art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-68 **第一項** 中等教育学校の前期課程の教育課程に関する事項並びに後期課程の学科及び教育課程に関する事項は、第六十三条、第六十四条及び前条の規定並びに第七十条第一項において読み替えて準用する第三十条第二項の規定に従い、文部科学大臣が定める。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-68/par-1 Matters regarding the curricula in the lower courses and matters regarding the departments and curricula in the upper courses of secondary education school are to be prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in compliance with the provisions in Articles 63, 64 and the preceding Article, and provisions of Article 30, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 70, paragraph (1), following the deemed replacement of terms. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Matters regarding the curricula in the lower courses and matters regarding the departments and curricula in the upper courses of secondary education school are to be prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in compliance with the provisions in Articles 63, 64 and the preceding Article, and provisions of Article 30, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 71, paragraph (1), following the deemed replacement of terms." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb --- ## Cites - art-68/par-1: 第六十三条 → 学校教育法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-63 - art-68/par-1: 第六十四条 → 学校教育法 第六十四条 (Article 64), art-64 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-64 - art-68/par-1: 前条 → 学校教育法 第六十七条 (Article 67), art-67 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-67 - art-68/par-1: 第七十条第一項 → 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 (Article 70, paragraph (1)), art-70/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-1 - art-68/par-1: 第三十条第二項 → 学校教育法 第三十条第二項 (Article 30, paragraph (2)), art-30/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-30/par-2 --- ## 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 68, 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