✈️ Academic route
FROM🇩🇪 Germany→TO🇯🇵 Japan
Germany school-leaving stage to Japan: education route
Compare school-leaving stage in Germany with the corresponding school stage in Japan, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
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Route alignment
Germany describes this point as Academic upper secondary / Abitur and vocational pathways. Japan describes the receiving stage as Upper secondary · Grades 10–12. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.
DEPARTING STAGEAcademic upper secondary / Abitur and vocational pathways✈ARRIVING STAGEUpper secondary · Grades 10–12
📚 Side-by-side
What crosses with the learner
Route point🇩🇪 Germany🇯🇵 Japan
Current stageAcademic upper secondary / Abitur and vocational pathwaysUpper secondary · Grades 10–12
Education authorityThe 16 Länder govern schools; the KMK coordinates shared standards and qualification comparability.MEXT publishes national Courses of Study; local boards and schools administer enrolment and progression.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements
🧳 Preparation file
Bring these into the route
- Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
- School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
- Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
- Certified translations and language-learning history where requested
🔗 Official links
Open the issuing sources
🎓 Practice the route
Prepare with KSSR.Press
Independent study tools sit beside the route while the official requirements remain above.
🔎 Also described as
moving from Germany to Japan for school-leaving stageGermany school-leaving stage in JapanGermany to Japan school transfer requirements