# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第八十三条 (Article 83) - 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: 第八十三条 (Article 83) — address `art-83` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83 - 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. --- ### 第八十三条 art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83 **第一項** 大学は、学術の中心として、広く知識を授けるとともに、深く専門の学芸を教授研究し、知的、道徳的及び応用的能力を展開させることを目的とする。 art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83/par-1 The purpose of universities, as the core of scholarly activities, are to have the purpose of broadly imparting knowledge, teaching and researching specialized arts and sciences in depth, and developing intellectual, moral, and practical abilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 大学は、その目的を実現するための教育研究を行い、その成果を広く社会に提供することにより、社会の発展に寄与するものとする。 art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83/par-2 Universities are to conduct education and research in order to realize those purposes, and contribute to the development of society by providing their results broadly in society. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 9 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 - 国民年金法 第百九条の二の二第一項（学生納付特例の事務手続に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-109-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-109-2-2/par-1 - 学校教育法 第八十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83-2/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-2 - 学校教育法 第百八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-108/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百八条第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-108/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-108/par-9 --- ## 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