The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has selected the awardwinning companies for the FY2026 Contest for Companies Advancing Older Worker Participation. EverBlue Co., Ltd. of Hamamatsu,...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare received notice from the Shizuoka Labour Bureau that it had imposed and announced an administrative disposition concerning an order to improve worker...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will send a 56occupation, 63member Japanese team to the 48th WorldSkills Competition, held in Shanghai, China, from September 22 to 27, 2026. The team will...
On August 27, 2026, the 14th ASEAN+3 Labour Ministers Meeting was held in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand, and Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Ueno attended. Under the theme “ASEAN Human Capital:...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will hold the 216th Social Security Council Health Insurance Committee Meeting (Paperless) on September 16, 2026. The agenda covers implementation of a...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will hold the 136th meeting of the Social Security Council’s LongTerm Care Insurance Subcommittee from 14:00 to 16:00 on Friday, September 18, 2026, at...
Press release dated September 14, 2026. It concerns the handling of insured status and related matters for individual business operators and others employed by establishments as regulartype workers...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has designated November 22, 2026 (Sun) through November 28, 2026 (Sat) as Medical Safety Promotion Week to protect patient safety. It will encourage...
At the expert meeting held on July 16, 2026, concentration limit values for 30 substances were deliberated, and decisions were made for each substance regarding 8hour or shortterm concentration limit...
On September 10, 2026, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and PMDA decided to formally join Project Orbis, an international cooperation framework for the regulatory review of anticancer drugs...