Basic Act on Education: Provisional English Translation from Japan

A provisional English translation of Japan's Basic Act on Education, the fundamental law governing the nation's education system. The text was published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and last updated in May 2023. The dataset likely contains the full legal text, providing a key reference for understanding Japanese educational principles and policies.

Use Cases

• Analyze legal terminology and structure for NLP tasks (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Study educational policy frameworks for comparative research (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Extract key principles for content analysis in social sciences (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative government ministry (MEXT)
• Last updated on 2023-05 30 23:13:41.221480

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to japan_data

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

Collection Method

Government publication and translation

Time Range

As of the law's status in May 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2023-05-30 23:13:41.221480

Geography

Japan