The promotion council has positioned the four years from 2015 to 2018 as a period of intensive reform of law schools, and by drastically reviewing the organization and improving the quality of education, about 4% or more of the graduates of each graduate school pass the bar examination. I am aiming for that.In terms of organization, the policy is to investigate the implementation status of education for graduate schools that still have issues such as a bar examination pass rate of less than 7%, a capacity sufficiency rate of less than 50%, and an entrance examination competition ratio of less than double, and seek solutions to the problems.
To improve the quality of education, we will increase the number of credits for basic legal subjects for graduate students who have not studied law in college, while introducing a common achievement confirmation test that objectively determines advancement by 2018. I have decided.In addition, we will consider how the elective subject examination and the preliminary examination system should be in the judicial examination.

The law school was founded in 2004 with the model of a law school in the United States, and has been set up in 74 national, public and private schools nationwide.The school period is two to three years, and if you complete it, you can take the bar examination without a preliminary examination.However, with the exception of some well-known schools, the number of applicants for admission has been declining and the bar examination pass rate has been sluggish. increase.
For this reason, starting with Himeji Dokkyo University in 2011, seven schools including Kobe Gakuin University and Meiji Gakuin University have closed their recruitment by 7. There are 2014 schools, including Kagawa University, Kanagawa University, and Tokai University, that have announced that they will stop recruiting after 2015.

Source:[Cabinet Secretariat] Further promotion of legal profession training system reform (PDF)