Article 1(1)A university (excluding a junior college; the same applies hereinafter) is to be established pursuant to the provisions of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) and other laws and regulations and as specified by this Ministerial Order

(2)The standards for establishment specified by this Ministerial Order are the minimum standards needed to establish a university.

(3)A university must endeavor not only to avoid falling short of the standards for establishment specified by this Ministerial Order but also to further improve the level of its standards.

Article 2A university is to proactively provide information on the details of its education and research activities, etc. by way of having it published or by other methods of disseminating that information widely.

Article 2-2A university is to define its purpose concerning the fostering of human resources and its other purposes of carrying out education and research for each faculty, department or course in its school regulations, etc. and publicize them.

Article 2-3The selection of entrants is to be made by a fair and adequate method under a properly developed system.

Article 3A faculty is organized in accordance with the requirements for each major as regards both education and research, and has a scale and content appropriate for carrying out education and research, and the organization and numbers of its teachers and other matters are recognized to be appropriate for a faculty.

Article 4(1)A faculty establishes its departments by major.

(2)A department set forth in the preceding paragraph is to have the organization necessary to carry out education and research in the subject area of each major.

Article 5A university may establish courses organized in lieu of departments, in accordance with the category of students' class schedules, when it is recognized to be effective and appropriate by which a faculty is able to achieve its purpose of providing education.

Article 6(1)An organization other than a faculty that can be the basis of carrying out education and research as prescribed in the proviso of Article 85 of the School Education Act (hereinafter referred to as a "basic organization other than a faculty") is an organization which is admitted to be effective and appropriate in achieving the relevant university's purpose of education and research and which meets the requirements listed in the following items:

(2)The standards for the number of full-time teachers and the area of the school buildings for a basic organization other than a faculty, and for attached facilities necessary for carrying out education and research at a basic organization other than the faculty are to conform to those standards for faculties or departments in their fields that are recognized to be equivalent to that of the relevant basic organization other than a faculty (including standards pertaining to inter-university departments prescribed in Article 45, paragraph (1) (simply referred to as "inter-university departments" in Article 13 and Article 37-2).

(3)In this Ministerial Order, except in this Chapter, Article 13, Article 37-2, Article 39, Article 46, Article 48, Article 49 (limited to the case where it is applied to attached facilities pertaining to the provisions of Article 39), Appended Table 1, Appended Table 2, and Appended Table 3, the word "faculty" includes a basic organization other than a faculty and the word "department" includes the relevant organization in the case where a basic organization other than a faculty is established.

Article 7(1)A university is to, in order to achieve its purpose of education and research, have the necessary teachers in accordance with the size of its education and research organization and the types and fields of degrees it confers;

(2)A university is to, when carrying out education and research, secure an organized coordination system under the appropriate division of roles among its teachers, and formulate a teacher organization so as to clarify where the responsibility for education and research lies.

(3)A university is to give consideration to ensuring that the age structure of teachers should not be heavily unbalanced within a certain age group, so as to maintain and enhance the levels of its education and research and promote its education and research.

(4)A university is to, when providing education at two or more school sites, have the teachers necessary for each of these school sites. Each school site is to have at least one or more full-time professors or associate professors, in principle, so as not to impede the education at the relevant school site; provided, however, that this does not apply if these school sites are adjacent to each other.

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Article 10(1)A university is to have full-time professors or associate professors, in principle, take charge of class subjects deemed to be essential from an educational standpoint (hereinafter referred to as "essential subjects") and is to endeavor, to the extent possible, to have full-time professors, associate professors, instructors, or assistant professors (referred to as "professors, etc." in Article 13 and Article 46, paragraph (1)) take charge of class subjects other than essential subjects.

(2)A university is to endeavor, to the extent possible, to have assistants assist in a subject's accompanying seminars, experiments, practical training or skills practice.

Article 11A university may have teachers who do not conduct classes when it is necessary for education and research purposes.

Article 12(1)A teacher is a full-time teacher only at one university.

(2)A full-time teacher is to be engaged in education and research solely at the university set forth in the preceding paragraph.

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a university may appoint a person who is engaged in duties other than the provision of education and research at the relevant university as a full-time teacher at the relevant university, when there is a special necessity for education and research and it is recognized that it does not impede the education and research at the relevant university.

Article 13The number of full-time teachers at a university is not less than the total of the number of professors, etc. specified in Appended Table 1, in accordance with the types and sizes of faculties established in the relevant university (for a faculty that has an inter-university department, the total of the number of professors, etc. obtained by applying the same table by deeming a department other than the inter-university department of the relevant faculty to be a single faculty plus the number of full-time teachers for the relevant inter-university department obtained pursuant to the provisions of Article 46), plus the number of professors, etc. specified in Appended Table 2, in accordance with the total admission capacity of the university.

Article 13-2A person who is permitted to be the president of a university is a person of virtuous character and of learning who is recognized to have insight concerning university management.

Article 14A person who is permitted to be a professor is a person falling under any of the following items, and who is recognized to have the educational abilities suitable for taking charge of the education offered by a university:

Article 15A person who is permitted to be an associate professor is a person falling under any of the following items, and is recognized to have the educational abilities suitable for taking charge of the education offered by a university:

Article 16A person who is permitted to be an instructor is a person falling under any of the following items:

Article 16-2A person who is permitted to be an assistant professor is a person falling under any of the following items, and is recognized to have the educational abilities suitable for taking charge of the education offered by a university:

Article 17A person who is permitted to be an assistant is a person falling under any of the following items:

Article 18(1)Admission capacity is to be specified by school regulations by faculty, with a department or course as a unit.In this case, when adopting a day/evening course system as prescribed in Article 26, the admission capacity for the relevant system is clearly specified; when establishing faculties, departments or other organizations in foreign countries as prescribed in Article 43, the admission capacity for the relevant organizations is to be clearly specified; and when fixing admission capacity for mid-course entry admission, the admission capacity for ordinary admission and for mid-course entry admission is to be clearly specified.

(2)Admission capacity is determined considering the teacher organization, facilities such as the school sites and school buildings, equipment, and other miscellaneous educational conditions, in comprehensive manner.

(3)In order to ensure an environment suitable for providing education, the university is to appropriately manage the number of students based on its admission capacity.

Article 19(1)A university is to establish the class subjects necessary to achieve its educational purpose of the university, respective faculties, departments, courses, etc., and is to organize the curricula systematically.

(2)When organizing the curricula, a university must give appropriate consideration to teaching students specialized arts and sciences related to the majors offered by the faculties, etc., and at the same time to fostering a wide-ranging and in-depth general education and ability to make comprehensive judgments, and to cultivating a rich humanity.

Article 20Curricula are organized by dividing all class subjects into categories of compulsory subjects, elective subjects, and free elective subjects, and appropriating these to each school year.

Article 21(1)The number of credits for each class subject is to be determined by a university.

(2)When determining the number of credits set forth in the preceding paragraph, a class subject for one credit is to normally be organized to contain contents that require 45-hour learning, and the number of credits is to be calculated based on the following standards, in light of the educational effects of the relevant class and required learning other than that during class hours, in accordance with class methods:

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, regarding class subjects, such as graduation theses, graduation research, and graduation products, when it is deemed to be appropriate to grant credits by evaluating the achievement of the relevant learning, the number of credits may be determined in light of the learning, etc. necessary for these activities.

Article 22The term during which classes are conducted for a year is 35 weeks, in principle, including the terms of regular examinations, etc.

Article 23Classes of each class subject are conducted with 10 weeks or 15 weeks as a unit; provided, however, that classes may be conducted for a specific term shorter than these, when it is deemed to be especially necessary from an educational standpoint.

Article 24The number of students for whom a university conducts classes for one class subject is an adequate number to achieve the full educational effects, in light of class methods, facilities and equipment, and other miscellaneous educational conditions.

Article 25(1)Classes are to be conducted using any one of the methods of lectures, seminars, experiments, practical training, or skills practice or a combination thereof

(2)A university may have its students take classes as set forth in the preceding paragraph at places other than a classroom where the relevant classes are conducted, by using various types of media in a highly advanced manner, as specified separately by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

(3)A university may have its students take classes as set forth in paragraph (1) in foreign countries. The same applies to the case where a university has its students take classes at places other than a classroom where the relevant classes are conducted, by using various types of media in a highly advanced manner, pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

(4)A university may conduct part of the classes set forth in paragraph (1) at places other than its school buildings and attached facilities, as specified separately by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Article 25-2(1)A university is to present a clear outline of the methodology used to give classes, the contents of classes, and a class schedule for the year to its students.

(2)A university is, when assessing its students' academic achievement and approving their graduation, to present them with a clear outline of the standards therefor, in advance, so as to ensure objectivity and rigorousness, and is to conduct an assessment and approval process appropriately in accordance with the relevant standards.

Article 25-3A university is to conduct organized training and research for improving the contents and methodology used to give classes at the relevant university.

Article 26A university may, if necessary from an educational standpoint, conduct classes under a day/evening course system (meaning a system under which classes are conducted both in the daytime and in the evening by a single faculty).

Article 27With regard to students who have completed one class subject, a university is to grant credits after examinations for them; provided, however, that regarding class subjects as set forth in Article 21, paragraph (3), a university may grant credits by assessing its students' academic achievements in an appropriate method specified by the university.

Article 27-2(1)With regard to the number of credits to be acquired as graduation requirements, a university must endeavor to fix an upper limit for the number of credits for which its students can register for a year or for a term, so that they should take class subjects appropriately for each school year.

(2)With regard to a student who has acquired all the predetermined credits, with excellent results, as specified by a university, the university may admit their registration for class subjects over the upper limit prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

Article 28(1)A university may, when deeming it to be effective from an educational standpoint, regard credits that its student has acquired by completing class subjects at other universities or junior colleges, as credits acquired by completing class subjects at the relevant university, to an extent not exceeding 60 credits, as specified by the university.

(2)The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a student studies at a foreign university or junior college, where a student takes class subjects which are conducted by a foreign university or a junior college by correspondence education in Japan, and where a student takes class subjects in Japan, which are conducted by a foreign educational facility positioned as an facility that has curricula of a university or junior college under the relevant foreign country's school education system and designated separately by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Article 29(1)A university may, when deeming it to be effective from an educational standpoint, deem its student's learning at a junior college or at an advanced course at a college of technology or other learning specified separately by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to be their learning of class subjects at the relevant university and grant credits, as specified by the university.

(2)The number of credits that a university can grant in accordance with the preceding paragraph is not to exceed 60 credits, together with the number of credits deemed to have been acquired at the relevant university under paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article.

Article 30(1)A university may, when deeming it to be effective from an educational standpoint, deem credits that its student has acquired by completing class subjects at other universities or junior colleges prior to being admitted to the relevant university (including credits acquired pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1)) to be credits that they have acquired by completing class subjects at the relevant university after being admitted to the relevant university.

(2)A university may, when deeming it to be effective from an educational standpoint, deem its student's learning prior to being admitted to the relevant university as prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to be their learning of class subjects at the relevant university and grant credits as specified by the university.

(3)The number of credits other than those acquired at a university, which can be deemed to have been acquired or which can be granted as prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, does not exceed 60 credits, together with the number of credits deemed to have been acquired at the relevant university under Article 28, paragraph (1) (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article) and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, except for cases of mid-course entry and transfers, etc.

Article 30-2A university may, when a student has reported their wish to complete the curricula for graduation over a certain period of time exceeding the original duration of study in a planned manner, due to such circumstances as they having an occupation, approve their planned completion of the curricula, as specified by the university.

Article 31(1)A university may grant credits to a person other than one of its students who takes one or more class subjects (hereinafter referred to as a "credited auditors"), as specified by the university.

(2)The provisions of Article 27 apply mutatis mutandis to the granting of credits to a credited auditors.

(3)A university is, when accepting a considerable number of credited auditors or persons other than its students (referred to as "credited auditors, etc." in the following paragraph), to increase to adjust the number of teachers and the area of its school site and school buildings, so as not to impede the provision of education, in light of the standards prescribed in Article 13, Article 37, and Article 37-2.

(4)A university is to, when accepting credited auditor, etc., determine the adequate number of persons who take one class subject simultaneously, in light of the provisions of Article 24.

Article 32(1)Graduation requirements is to study at a university for four years or longer and acquire 124 credits or more.

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, graduation requirements for medical science or dental science departments are to study at a university for six years or longer and acquire 188 credits or more; provided, however, that a university may replace part of the credits to be acquired with the completion of equivalent hours of classes, when deeming it to be necessary from an educational standpoint.

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), graduation requirements for pharmacological science departments whose major purpose is to cultivate practical clinical ability are to study at a university for six years or longer and acquire 186 credits or more (including 20 credits or more for practical training conducted at university hospitals, other hospitals and pharmacies, for the purpose of cultivating practical clinical ability concerning pharmacological science required for practice as a pharmacist in the future (hereinafter referred to as "pharmacological practical training")).

(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), graduation requirements for veterinary science departments are to study at a university for six years or longer and acquire 182 credits or more.

(5)Out of the 124 credits to be acquired as graduation requirements pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the number of credits which are acquired in the class methods set forth in Article 25, paragraph (2) does not exceed 60 credits.

Article 33(1)With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) or Article 27 to class subjects whose completion is deemed to be the acquisition of hours of class in lieu of credits under the proviso of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the term "The number of credits" in Article 21, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "The number of class hours," and the term "With regard to students who have completed one class subject, a university is to grant them credits" in Article 27 is deemed to be replaced with "With regard to students who have completed class subjects, a university is to approve their completion of the class subjects."

(2)With regard to class subjects whose number of hours has been specified, the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1) (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article), Article 29, paragraph (1), or Article 30, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) may apply by deeming the number of hours of the relevant class subjects to be an equivalent number of credits.

Article 34A school site is to have an environment suitable for providing education and the site for a school building is to have appropriate empty spaces for its students to rest in or to use for other purposes.

Article 35An athletic ground is established within the school building site or on an adjacent site, in principle, so as not to impede the education, or is established in an appropriate location in unavoidable circumstances.

Article 36(1)A university has school buildings, in accordance with its organization and size, which are equipped with the minimum of the following for its exclusive facilities; provided, however, that this does not apply if there are special circumstances and if it is deemed that the education and research would not be impeded:

(2)A laboratory is always provided for a full-time teacher.

(3)The necessary types and number of classrooms is provided, in accordance with departments or courses.

(4)School buildings are equipped with facilities for information processing and for learning languages, to the extent possible, in addition to the facilities listed in paragraph (1).

(5)In addition to school buildings, a university is to have in principle a gymnasium, and is to also have sports facilities other than a gymnasium, an auditorium, dormitories, facilities for extracurricular activities and other facilities for welfare and guidance, to the extent possible.

(6)A university that establishes faculties conducting night classes (hereinafter referred to as an "night faculty") or a university which adopts a day/evening course system is to ensure that there is no impediment to the education and research when using laboratories, classrooms, a library and other facilities.

Article 37(1)The total area of the school site of a university (excluding the area of sites for attached facilities other than a university hospital and the area for the dormitories) is the area calculated by multiplying the number of students of the admission capacity with 10 square meters, and adding the building area of the university hospital.

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in the case where daytime faculties (meaning faculties conducting daytime classes; the same applies hereinafter) and night faculties of the same type use neighboring facilities or share facilities, etc., the area of the school site is an area that does not impede the education and research at the relevant daytime faculties and night faculties.

(3)When adopting a day/evening course system, the area prescribed in paragraph (1) may be reduced in light of admission capacity, methods of taking classes, or utilization of facilities, to the extent that it does not impede the education.

Article 37-2The area of the school buildings of a university that establishes only one faculty is not below the area prescribed in the table of Appended Table 3, (a) or (b) (for a faculty that has an inter-university department, the total of the area obtained by applying the same table by deeming a department other than the inter-university department of the relevant faculty to be a single faculty plus the area related to the relevant inter-university department obtained pursuant to the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1)), and the area of the school buildings of a university that establishes multiple faculties is not below the aggregated total of the area prescribed in the same table for the faculty out of these multiple faculties whose area of school buildings in the same table (for a faculty that has an inter-university department, the area obtained by applying the same table by deeming a department other than the inter-university department of relevant faculty to be a single faculty) is the largest plus the total of the areas prescribed in Appended Table 3, (b) or (c) for respective faculties other than the relevant faculty (for a faculty that has an inter-university department, the area obtained by applying the same table by deeming a department other than the inter-university department of the relevant faculty to be a single faculty) (for a faculty that has an inter-university department, the aggregated total is the area obtained by adding the area related to the relevant department obtained pursuant to the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1)).

Article 38(1)A university is to keep books, scholarly journals, audio-visual materials, and other materials necessary for education and research, in accordance with the types and sizes of faculties, etc., systematically with its library as the center.

(2)A library is to collect, compile and provide materials as set forth in the preceding paragraph and is to endeavor to provide scholarly information by developing an information processing and provision system, as well as endeavoring to cooperate with libraries, etc. of other universities for the provision of materials as set forth in the preceding paragraph.

(3)In order to enable a library to fulfill its full function, the necessary specialists and other full-time employees are to be assigned to the library.

(4)A library is to be equipped with reading rooms, reference rooms, arrangement rooms, and book storerooms of an appropriate size that can facilitate education and research at the university.

(5)Reading rooms as set forth in the preceding paragraph are equipped with a sufficient number of chairs for students to study and for teachers to provide education and conduct research work.

Article 39(1)A university that establishes faculties or departments listed in the left-hand column of the following table is to have attached facilities listed in the right-hand column, respectively, as facilities necessary for education and research at the faculty or department.

(2)A university that establishes faculties related to engineering is to have a factory for experiments and practical training, in principle.

Article 39-2A university that establishes faculties or departments related to pharmacological science whose major purpose is to cultivate practical clinical ability is to ensure the facilities necessary for practical training for pharmacology.

Article 40A university is to have the necessary types and number of machines, instruments and specimens, in accordance with the types of faculties or departments, and the number of teachers and students.

Article 40-2A university is, when carrying out education and research at two or more school sites, to have the necessary facilities and equipment for the respective school sites so as not to impede the education and research therein; provided, however, that this does not apply if these school sites are adjacent to each other.

Article 40-3A university is to endeavor to develop its environment so as to make it suitable for education and research by ensuring the necessary budget, for the purpose of achieving its purpose of education and research.

Article 40-4Names of universities, faculties and departments (hereinafter referred to as "universities, etc.") are to be appropriate as those for universities, etc. and suitable for the purpose of the education and research by the relevant universities, etc.

Article 41A university is to establish an appropriate organization for clerical work with full-time employees, for the purpose of dealing with its clerical work.

Article 42A university is to establish an appropriate organization with full-time employees, for the purpose of conducting work for students' welfare and guidance.

Article 43(1)Two or more universities may, when it is deemed necessary to achieve the educational purpose of the relevant universities, faculties, and departments, organize curricula with the same contents (excluding curricula pertaining to correspondence education courses and curricula in which students acquire credits as the whole or part of credits to be acquired as graduation requirements by completing class subjects offered at faculties, departments or other organizations established by universities in foreign countries; hereinafter referred to as "inter-university curricula") at the respective universities, by deeming class subjects offered at one of these two or more universities to be part of curricula of other universities out of these two or more universities, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (1); provided, however, that universities that organize inter-university curricula (hereinafter referred to as "component universities") are to offer part of essential subjects pertaining to the relevant inter-university curricula by themselves as their compulsory subjects, respectively.

(2)A university may not organize only inter-university curricula (including curricula pertaining to graduate school courses).

(3)Component universities organize the relevant inter-university curricula and establish a forum for implementing them.

Article 44Component universities are to approve credits that students acquired by completing class subjects at one of the relevant component universities (including credits deemed to have been acquired by replacement with the completion of equivalent hours of classes, as prescribed in the proviso to Article 32, paragraph (2)) as credits that the students acquired by completing class subjects at other universities out of the relevant component universities.

Article 45(1)Graduation requirements pertaining to departments organizing inter-university curricula (hereinafter referred to as "inter-university departments") are to acquire 31 credits or more by completing class subjects pertaining to the relevant inter-university curricula at respective universities, in addition to those prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1), paragraph (3) or paragraph (4).

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, graduation requirements for medical science or dental science related inter-university departments are to acquire 32 credits or more (including credits deemed to have been acquired by replacement with the completion of equivalent hours of classes, as prescribed in the proviso to Article 32, paragraph (2)) by completing class subjects pertaining to the relevant inter-university curricula at respective universities, in addition to those prescribed in the same paragraph.

(3)The number of credits to be acquired by completing class subjects pertaining to the relevant inter-university curricula at respective universities pursuant to the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs is not to include credits that are deemed to have been acquired, may be granted, or are to be deemed to have been acquired , in accordance with Article 28, paragraph (1) (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the same Article), Article 29, paragraph (1), Article 30, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), or the preceding Article.

Article 46(1)The number of full-time teachers for inter-university departments is not less than the number calculated by allocating the number of professors, etc. obtained by applying the middle column of table (a) or table (b) of Appended Table 1, by deeming all departments organizing the relevant inter-university curricula at respective universities to be a single faculty, in accordance with those departments' types and sizes (referred to as the "number of overall full-time teachers" in the following paragraph), and in accordance with respective universities' ratios of the admission capacity for these departments (when there is a fraction of less than one, the fraction is rounded off; hereinafter referred to as the "specified number of full-time teachers by university" in this Article).

(2)When the aggregated total of the number of full-time teachers of respective university for departments organizing the relevant inter-university curricula prescribed in the preceding paragraph does not reach the number of overall required full-time teachers, the deficient number of full-time teachers is appointed for a department organizing the relevant inter-university curricula at any of those universities.

(3)When the number of full-time teachers of respective university for departments organizing the relevant inter-university curricula prescribed in paragraph (1) (when the deficient number of full-time teachers are appointed to a department as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the number obtained by adding the relevant full-time teachers) does not reach 80% of the number of required full-time teachers prescribed in the right-hand column of table (a) of Appended Table 1 (prescribed in the middle column of the same table, for health-related departments (nursing science-related departments)), or the number indicated in the column of the number of full-time teachers in the case of faculties with admission capacity up to 360 students in table (b) of Appended Table 1 (hereinafter these numbers are referred to as the "minimum number of full-time teachers by university" in this paragraph), the number of full-time teachers for the relevant department is not below the minimum number of full-time teachers by university.

Article 47Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1), when the aggregated total of the area of the school sites for departments organizing inter-university curricula of respective universities exceeds the area obtained by multiplying the total number of admission capacity for these departments by 10 square meters, and if it is recognized that the education and research would not be impeded, it is not required that respective universities separately have the area calculated by deeming that, within the admission capacity for the relevant departments, the area for one student should be 10 square meters.

Article 48(1)The area of the school buildings for inter-university departments is not smaller than the area calculated by allocating the area obtained by applying table (a) or table (b) of Appended Table 3, by regarding all departments organizing the relevant inter-university curricula at respective universities as a single faculty, in accordance with those departments' types (referred to as the "area of overall school buildings" in the following paragraph), and in accordance with respective universities' ratios of the admission capacity for these departments (referred to as the "specified area of school buildings by university" in the following paragraph).

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 37-2 and the preceding paragraph, when the aggregated total of the area of the school buildings for departments organizing inter-university curricula of respective universities exceeds the area of overall school buildings, and if it is deemed that the education and research would not be impeded, it is not required that respective universities separately have the specified area of school buildings by university.

Article 49In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding two Articles, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 34 through Article 36 and Article 38 through Article 40, when departments organizing inter-university curricula at respective universities have facilities and equipment that are necessary in accordance with their types and the number of teachers and students, by deeming all those departments to be a single faculty or department, and if it is recognized that the education and research would not be impeded, it is not required that respective universities separately have the facilities and equipment for the relevant departments.

Article 50A university may establish faculties, departments and other organizations in foreign countries, as provided for separately by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Article 51The provisions of Article 34, Article 35, Article 36, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5), Article 37, and Article 37-2, Article 47, Article 48, and Article 49 (limited to the case where it is applied to facilities and equipment pertaining to the provisions of Article 34, Article 35, and Article 36, paragraph (4) and paragraph (5)) do not apply to universities prescribed in Article 103 of the School Education Act.

Article 52Standards concerning graduate schools and others are provided for separately.

Article 53When newly establishing universities, etc. or changing the duration of study for courses for pharmacological science, a teacher organization and facilities such as school buildings and equipment may be implemented step by step , as provided for separately.