High school, year 3 (高校3年)

High school: credits, moving up a year, and the 文系/理系 choice made in year 1

高校の単位・進級（原級留置）と文系・理系の選択

Graduation needs every required credit, and a student short on attendance or a passing mark can be held back, 原級留置 (repeating the year), so check where your child stands before the last term.

Ask the teacher: Is my child short of any credit or attendance needed to graduate?

"How to send an SOS": what schools teach, and the lines a child or parent can call

SOSの出し方に関する教育と、子供・保護者の相談窓口

The final year's decisions land on a teenager who is becoming an adult, and the lines in the article still take their calls, with some for parents too.

At home: Your child talks as if nothing after graduation is worth planning, or stops caring how exams go.

Turning 18 in high school: contracts, parental authority, voting, and what stays at 20

18歳で成年に（契約・親権・選挙権と20歳のまま変わらないこと）

This is the year your child becomes a legal adult: phone, card, loan and rental contracts no longer need you, voting begins, and alcohol, tobacco and gambling stay barred until later.

At home: Your child signs up for something through a sales call, a friend or an app and then cannot get out of it.

After high school, a child on Dependent status who wants to work: what the immigration page actually says

家族滞在のまま高校を出たあとに働く場合（出入国在留管理庁）

A child on 家族滞在 (Dependent status) who wants to work after high school may be able to change status, and the immigration page lists strict conditions.

University entry for April 2027: the three selections, the common test, and the national fee standard

令和9年度の大学入学者選抜（一般・総合型・学校推薦型）と共通テスト

Comprehensive and recommendation rounds open in the autumn, the 共通テスト (common test) comes in the winter, and the general exams follow, each with its own fee and deadline.

Ask the teacher: Which deadlines does the school handle for us, such as the 調査書 (school report), and which are ours?

The University of Tokyo's foreign-school route is not the junior-high exam, and it has traps

東京大学 外国学校卒業学生特別選考の落とし穴

If your child finished a foreign curriculum, the University of Tokyo's special selection for foreign-school graduates has its own eligibility traps, and other universities set their own rules.

JASSO grants before university: which residence status can apply, and what is paid

給付奨学金の予約採用と、外国籍の申込資格

The JASSO grant's pre-university round is filed through the high school this year, and some residence statuses cannot apply.

Ask the teacher: Has my child's JASSO application gone in, and is anything missing?

Part-time high school, correspondence, and the high-school equivalency exam

定時制・通信制・高等学校卒業程度認定試験

If graduating on time is in doubt, part-time or correspondence courses lead to the same diploma, and the 高卒認定 (high-school equivalency exam) opens university entry without one.