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司法書士試験
Judicial Scrivener exam
The national exam to become a judicial scrivener (shiho shoshi) in Japan.
The exam
- Set by
- The Ministry of Justice of Japan (法務省)
- The paper
- Morning: 35 multiple-choice questions; afternoon: 35 multiple-choice questions plus two long written registration questions; then an oral exam
- How it is sat
- Once a year, with an oral exam afterwards
- Where
- Japan, in Japanese
What Licento would give you
- Practice questions written to this exam's syllabus, scheduled up to your exam date.
- Mock exams in the real exam's format, timed and marked the same way.
- How ready you are, topic by topic, so you know where to spend your time.

