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Secondary education in Japan

Japanese secondary school students in uniform
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Japanese secondary school students in uniform

In education in Japan, most lower secondary schools (中学校 chûgakkô, literally, middle school) cover the seventh through ninth years, and most upper secondary schools (高等学校 kôtôgakkô, literally, high school) cover years ten through twelve. Attendance in upper secondary school is not compulsory, but most students do attend.

Most Japanese upper secondary schools have complicated admissions procedures, similar to university admissions in other countries. The top upper secondary schools, however, graduate their students directly into the top universities, such as Tokyo University. Students who do not plan to attend university are generally tracked into vocational departments in upper secondary schools: very few lower secondary school graduates forego upper secondary school entirely, although they are free to do so if they wish.

In Japan, the School Education Law was revised in 1998, and secondary schools (中等教育学校, chûtôkyôikugakkô, literally, secondary education school) was newly accepted as schools. The education in a secondary school is consistent education from lower secondary schools education through upper secondary schools education.

In the pre-Meiji educational system, the equivalent to upper secondary school (高等学校, high school) was chûgakkô (中学校, middle school) or kôtôjogakkô (高等女学校, literally, high girls' school). Especially chûgakkô of pre-Meiji educational system is called kyûsei chûgakkô (旧制中学校, literally, pre-system's middle school), now.

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Last updated: 03-09-2005 20:20:11