2. Data description
2-1 Data source used to compile the Fundamental Statistics
House of Representatives
House of Councilors
Court

Breakdown list if the program has several components ※2

Name ※1

Organization

Government Employees' Accident

Accident Compensation for Government Employees inCompensation, etc.

Special Service

Government Employees' Accident

Accident Compensation for Government Employees inCompensation, etc.

Special Service

Government Employees' Accident

Accident Compensation for Government Employees inCompensation, etc.

Special Service

National Personnel

Government Employees' Accident

Government Employees' Accident Compensation(General

Authority

Compensation, etc.

staff)

Cabinet OfficeChild Allowance (Jido Teate)
Social Welfare

Disaster policy expenses , Reconstruction policy expenses
related to regional revitalization etc., Okinawa policy
expenses , Expenses for supporting children and childrearing , expenses for promoting gender-equal society

Other Schemes
Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery
Support System
National Police Agency

Other Schemes

Ministry of Internal

Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid

Local Government Employee Mutual Aid , Mutual aid

Affairs andAssociation

associations for members of regional assemblies

Local Government Employees' Accident

Local Government Employees Accident Compensation ,Compensation

Accident Compensation for Volunteer Firefighters

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation , Nippon

Compensation

Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation , Nippon

Benefit System for Crime Victims

Communications

Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation , NTT
Communications Corporation
National Public Employees' Pensions
Local Public Employees' Pensions
Aid for War Victims

Pensions to surviving families and ex-servicemen

Other Schemes
Local government expenditure exclusively
financed by local revenue
Ministry of Foreign

Government Employees' Accident

Accident Compensation for Government Employees in

Affairs

Compensation, etc.

Special Service

Ministry of Finance Japan

National and Related Public Service Mutual
Aid Association
Existing Associations, etc.

NTT Corporate Pension Fund , Japan Tobacco Mutual Aid
Association , Japan Railway Mutual Aid Association

Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Subsidies for Mutual Aid Association Established underFormer Ordinances , Yahata Mutual Aid Association ,Subsidies for Federation of National Public Service
Personnel Mutual Aid Association

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident

Japan Tobacco Inc. Corporation

Compensation
Aid for War Victims

Subsidy bonds issued to the surviving families of thewar Dead, Wounded and sick retired soldiers, and therepatriated after the war, in lieu of cash benefits,iBreakdown list if the program has several components ※2

Name ※1

Organization

Consolation payments, and grants
Ministry of Education,

Mutual Aid Association of Private School

Culture, Sports, Science

Personnel

and Technology
Social Welfare

Expenses for sports promotion

Other Schemes
Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit
School Expense Assistance/Pre-primary
Education

Expenses for the primary and secondary education etc.
(school expense assistance etc.) , Expenses for recovery
measures from the Great East Japan earthquake , Subsidies
for Private Schools

Ministry of Health,

Association-Kenpo Health Insurance

Labour and Welfare
Society-managed Health Insurance
National Health Insurance (Including Medical
Care System for Retired Persons)
Medical Care System for the Elderly in the
Latter Stage of Life
Health and Medical Services for the Aged
Long-term Care Insurance
Employees’ Pension Insurance
Employees’ Pension Funds
Coal Mining Pension Fund
National Pension
National Pension Fund
Farmers’ Pension Fund
Seamen's Insurance
Employment Insurance (Labor Insurance
Special Account)
Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance
Public HealthExpenses for measures ensuring the medical care delivery
system , Okinawa health and sanitation facility maintenancefee , Expenses for ensuring safety in medical care , National
hospital organization operating expenses , National cancer
center japan operating expenses , National cerebral andcardiovascular center operating expenses , National centerof neurology and psychiatry operating expenses , National
center for global health and medicine operating expenses ,National center for child health and development operating
expenses , National center for geriatrics and gerontology
oerating expenses , Expenses for developing the foundationof the medical care delivery system , Expenses for okinawa
promoting , National hansen's disease sanatorium common
expenses , National hansen's disease sanatorium operating
expenses , National hansen's disease sanatorium facility
fee , Expenses for measures controlling and preventing
infectious diseases , Expenses for measures for specificdisease treatment etc. , Expenses for promoting
transplantation therapy , Expenses for measures for theatomic bomb exposed , Expenses for measures forcommunity health , Health and sanitation facility

iiBreakdown list if the program has several components ※2

Name ※1

Organization

maintenance fee , Expenses for health promotion measures,
Expenses for promoting health risk management , Expenses
for policies on social security related to the recovery fromthe great east japan earthquake , Expenses for projects onsocial security related to the recovery from the great eastjapan earthquake , Expenses for measures for blood
products , Expenses for promoting safety measures for
drugs etc. , Expenses for health and welfare for persons
with disabilities , Expenses for medical insurance benefits ,Expenses for promoting optimizing medical care ,Quarantine station common expenses , Operating expense
for quarantine , Operating expense for quarantine ofimported food , Expenses for food safety measures
Public AssistanceSocial Welfare

Expenses for health and welfare for persons withdisabilities , National center for persons with severe
intellectual disabilities nozominosono operating expenses ,National center for persons with severe intellectual
disabilities nozominosono facility maintenance fee , Social
welfare institution maintenance fee , National rehabilitation
facility common expenses , National rehabilitation facility
fee , Operating expense for national rehabilitation facility ,Operating expenses for national children's self-reliancesupport facility , Expenses for promoting daily-life support
measures for the elderly , Expenses for long-term careinsurance system management promotion , Expenses forchildcare measures , Expenses for preventive measuresagainst child abuse , Expenses for maternal and child publichealth service , Expenses for measures for fatherless andother families , Expenses for supporting children and childrearing , Child welfare facility maintenance fee , Expenses
for promoting recovery from the great east japan
earthquake , Expenses for projects on social security related
to the recovery from the great east japan earthquake ,Expenses for policies on social security related to therecovery from the great east japan earthquake, Expenses for
public assistance measures etc. , Miscellaneous expenses
for social welfare , Welfare and medical service agency
operating expenses , Subsidy for provisional welfare
benefit , Expenses for measures for specific disease
treatment etc. , Expenses for promoting safety measures for
drugs etc. , Operating expenses for public pension

Employment Measures

Special temporary grant for creating immediate
employment opportunities , Employment stabilization andpromotion of older persons, etc. , Expenses for carrying out
employment placement businesses etc. , Expenses forvocational skills development and improvement , Expenses
for supporting vocational skills development for youth andothers , Expenses for vocational skills development for
persons with disabilities , Prefectural labor bureau common
expenses , Prefectural labor bureau facility feeiiiBreakdown list if the program has several components ※2

Name ※1

Organization

Aid for War Victims

Expenses for support of war-bereaved and families of theunrepatriated , Expenses for support measures for japaneseremaining in china etc.

Other Schemes
Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse

Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug Reactions ,Drug Reactions

Subsidies for specific hepatitis C virus infection

Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases
Infected from Biological Products
Small-and-medium Size Enterprise
Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid System,
etc.
Mutual Aid System for the Retirement

Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for the

Allowance for the Staff of Social Welfare

Staff of Social Welfare Institutions and Others , Pension

Institutions etc.

Insurance for Disabled People

Japan Organization for Employment of theElderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job
Seekers
Ministry of Agriculture,

Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery

Forestry and Fisheries

Organization, Employees’ Mutual Aid
Association

Ministry of Land,

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident

Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology

Infrastructure, Transport

Compensation

Agency JNR Settlement Administration Department

Employment Measures

Promotion expenses for maritime industry market

and Tourism
development etc.
Aid for War Victims

Aid for free ride for wounded and sick retired soldiers andothersOther Schemes
Support for Those Suffering from Residual
Disability from Automobile Accidents
Housing

Miscellaneous expenses for measures against housing
problems

Ministry of the

Public HealthExpenses for nuclear power safety regulation measure

Environment
Other Schemes
Pollution-related Health Damage
Compensation System
Asbestos Health Damage Relief System
Ministry of Defense
Health Insurance Claims

Government Employees' Accident

Accident Compensation for Government Employees inCompensation, etc.

Special Service

HealthAdministrative cost of public funded healthcare etc.

HealthPatient transportation , School health

Review &Reimbursement services
National Institute ofPopulation and Social
Security Research
Notes:
1. This schemelist corresponds to the Tabulation 2 Social Security Benefit Expense Table.
2. Items prepared by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research are estimations based on the Regional tax allocation
system commentary unit cost edited by the Committee to Study Regional Tax Allocation Systems.

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2-2 Social security schemes contained in Social Expenditure 1
Category
Old age

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Old-age comprises all cash expenditures(including lump sum payments) on old-age
pensions. Old age cash benefits provide an
income for persons retired from the labour
market or guarantee incomes when a person hasreached a ‘standard’ pensionable age or fulfilled
the necessary contributory requirements. This
category also includes early retirement
pensions: pensions paid before the beneficiaryhas reached the standard' pensionable age
relevant to the programme.
Excluded are programmes concerning early
retirement for labour market reasons which areclassified under "Unemployment." Old age also
includes social expenditure on services for theelderly people, services such as day care andrehabilitation services, home-help services andother benefits in kind. It also includes
expenditure on the provision of residential carein an institution.

 Long-term Care Insurance: Old age care services, Old
age care prevention services, etc.
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Old age pension, etc.
 Employees' Pension Funds: Pension benefits, etc.
 Coal Mining Pension Fund: Pension benefits, etc.
 National Pension: Old age pension, etc.
 National Pension Fund: Pension benefits, etc.
 Farmers' Pension Fund: Retirement pension benefits,etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Retirement
pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Retirement mutual aid pension, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Retirement benefits, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Retirement benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Retirement pensions, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Retirement
benefits, etc.
 National Public Employees' Pensions: Pension and
Gratuity benefits
 Local Public Employees' Pensions: Pension and
Gratuity benefits Public Health: Measures for atomic bomb survivors,etc.
 Public Assistance: Long-term care assistance, etc.
 Social Welfare: Promotion of the daily life support for
the elderly, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Public care home for Elderly, etc.
 Small-and-medium Size Enterprise Retirement
Allowance Mutual Aid System, etc.: Retirement
benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Retirement benefitsvCategory
Survivors

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Survivors
comprisessocialexpenditure
programmes in the public sphere which provide
the spouse or dependent of a deceased personwith a benefit (either in cash or in kind).
Allowances and supplements for dependent
children of the recipient of a survivors’ benefit
are also recorded here.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance: Funeral service
fees, etc.
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Funeral service
fees, etc.
 National Health Insurance: Funeral service fees Medical Care System for the Elderly in the Latter
Stage of Life: Funeral service fees
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Survivors’ pension
benefits
 National Pension: Survivors' basic pension, etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Funeral service fees, etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Survivors’
pension benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Survivors' mutual aid pension, Funeral service fees,etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Funeral service fee, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Survivors’ pension benefits, Funeralservice fees, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Survivors’ pension benefits
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Survivors' pensions, Funeral service fees,etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Survivors'
benefits
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation, etc.:
Funeral compensation
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Funeral compensation
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident Compensation:
Funeral compensation
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease control,etc.
 Public Assistance: Funeral assistance Aid for War Victims: Survivors’ pension benefits,
Funeral service fees, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Support for war-bereaved
families Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Survivors’ pension benefits, Funeral service
fees, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases Infectedfrom Biological Products: Survivors’ pension benefits Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Condolence payments, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Survivors' compensation, Funeral service fees,etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Special
survivor condolence payments, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Consolation
payments for death, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Survivors’ pension
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Category

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Incapacity-related
benefits

Disability cash benefits comprise of cash
payments on account of complete or partial
inability to participate gainfully in the labour
market due to disability. The disability may becongenital, or the result of an accident or illness
during the victim's lifetime.
Spending on Occupational injury and disease
records all cash payments such as paid sickleave, special allowances and disability related
payments such as pensions, if they are related toprescribe occupational injuries and diseases.
Sickness cash benefits related to loss of earning
because of the temporary inability to work due
to illness are also recorded. This excludes paid
leave related to sickness or injury of adependent child which is recorded under family
cash benefits. All expenditure regarding the
public provision of health care is recorded underhealth. Social expenditure on services for thedisabled people encompasses services such as
day care and rehabilitation services, home-help
services and other benefits in kind.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance: Employee
sickness payments
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Employee
sickness payments, etc.
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Disability pension
benefits, etc.
 National Pension: Disability basic pension, etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organization,
Employees' Mutual Aid Association: Disability
pension benefits, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Disability mutual aid pension benefits, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Disability pension benefits, Survivors’ pension
benefits, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc.: Disability pension
benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Disability pension benefits, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Disability
pension benefits, etc.
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation, etc.:
Disability pension benefits, Survivors’ pension
benefits, Home help service, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Disability pension benefits, Survivors’
pension benefits, Rehabilitation, etc.
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident Compensation:
Disability pension benefits, Survivors’ pension
benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease control,
Expenses for measures for the atomic bomb exposed,etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Medical care benefits, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Public facility for people withdisabilities, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Disability pension, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases Infectedfrom Biological Products: Medical allowance, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.: Disability
pension benefits, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Disability benefits, Rehabilitation, etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Medical carebenefits
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Consolation
payments for disability, etc.
 Support for Those Suffering from Residual Disability
from Automobile Accidents: Care expenses, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Disability
benefits, etc.

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CategoryHealthOECD Definition

Examples in Japan

This category includes benefits in kind for
medical care spent for treatment and does notinclude sickness and injury allowance.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance: Medical benefitsetc., Administrative costs, etc.
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Medical benefitsetc., Administrative costs, etc.
 National Health Insurance: Medical benefits etc.,
Administrative costs, etc.
 Health and Medical Services for the Aged: Medical
benefit, Administrative costs, etc.
 Medical Care System for the Elderly in the Latter Stageof Life: Medical benefit, Administrative costs, etc.
 Seamen’s Insurance: Medical benefits etc.,
Administrative costs, etc.
 Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Medical benefits etc., Administrative costs, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Medical benefits etc., Administrative costs, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Medical benefits etc., Administrative
costs, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Medical benefits etc., Administrative
costs, etc.
 Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.: Medical benefit
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation, etc.:
Medical benefit, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation: Medical benefit, etc.
 Public Corporation Staffs' Accident Compensation :Medical benefit
 Public Health: Expenses for measures ensuring the
medical care delivery system, Expenses for infectious
disease control, Expenses for health promotion
measures, etc.
 Public Assistance: Medical aid
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities, Expenses for preventive
measures against child abuse, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Medical benefit
 Health: Patient transportation, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Local government expenditure on
medical care exclusively financed by local revenue,etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Medical benefit
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases Infectedfrom Biological Products: Medical benefit
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation System:
Medical benefit Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Medical
benefits
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Medical
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Category
FamilyOECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Family includes expenditure which supports
families (i.e. excluding one-person households).
This expenditure is often related to the costs
associated with raising children or with thesupport of other dependents. Expenditure related
to maternity and parental leave is grouped under
the family cash benefits sub-category.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance: Lump sum
payments for maternity and parental leave
 Society-managed Health Insurance: Lump sum
payments for maternity leave, etc.
 Seamen's Insurance: Lump sum payments formaternity leave Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Maternity allowance Employment Insurance: Parental leave benefits, Careleave benefits, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Expenses for work-life balance promotion
 Child Allowance (Jido Teate) ：Cash benefits, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Parental leave benefits, Care leave
benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Parental leave benefits, Care leave
benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease control Public Assistance: Maternity assistance, Education
assistance Social Welfare : Expenses for supporting children andchild rearing, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Public nursery schools, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Pension benefits for children withdisabilities
 School Expense Assistance/Pre-primary Education:
Expenses for the primary and secondary educationetc.

Active labour
marketprogrammes

Active labour market programmes - contains all
social expenditure (other than education) which
is aimed at the improvement of the beneficiaries’
prospect of finding gainful employment or tootherwise increase their earnings capacity. This
category includes spending on public
employment services and administration, labour
market training, special programmes for youth
when in transition from school to work, labour
market programmes to provide or promote
employment for unemployed and other persons(excluding young and disabled persons) andspecial programmes for the disabled.

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 Employment Insurance: Expenses for carrying out
employment placement businesses etc., Education
training benefits, Expenses for vocational skills
development for persons with disabilities, etc.
 Employment Measures: Expenses for vocational
skills development and improvement, Employment
stabilization and promotion for older persons, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Employment measures forthe elderly, etc.
 Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly,
Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers: Allowancefor employing persons with disabilities, etc.

Category

OECD Definition

Examples in Japan

Unemployment

This category includes all cash expenditure topeople compensating for unemployment. This
includes redundancy payments out of publicresources as well as pensions to beneficiaries
before they reach the 'standard' pensionable age ifthese payments are made because they are out ofwork or otherwise for reasons of labour market
policy.

 Employment Insurance 2: Job applicants' benefits,
Job applicants' benefits for the elderly, etc.
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance:
Compensation for unpaid wages
 Employment Measures: Employment stabilizationand promotion of older persons, etc.

Housing

Rent subsidies and other benefits to theindividual to help with housing costs. This
includes direct public subsidies to tenants
earmarked for support with the cost of housing.
SOCX also reports direct housing provision to
the elderly, disabled, low income families, but
excludes mortgage relief (fiscal), (capital-)
subsidies towards the construction of housing
support or implicit subsidies.
By convention, all housing benefits are classified
as in-kind benefit as they are earmarked
expenditures.

 Public Assistance: Housing assistance Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Stable housing for elderly
household Housing: Miscellaneous expenses for measuresagainst housing problems

Other social
policy areas

This category includes social benefits which falloutside the scope of the categories listed above.
Specifically, these are public assistance benefits
and any benefits in kind, which cannot be
categorized into other categories.

 National Health Insurance: Miscellaneous benefits Mutual Aid Association of Private School Personnel:
Accident benefits, etc.
 National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Accident benefits, etc.
 Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid
Association: Accident benefits Public Health: Assistance for residents affectedby the nuclear Incidents, etc.
 Public Assistance: Livelihood assistance,
Occupational assistance Social Welfare: Expenses for policies on social
security related to the recovery from the great eastjapan earthquake, etc.
 Employment Measures: Special temporary grant for
creating immediate employment opportunities
 Aid for War Victims: Assistance for repatriates, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively Financed
by Local Revenue : Welfare office, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Special
condolence money for victims of the great east Japan
earthquake Benefit System for Crime Victims: Special benefits
for crime victims
 Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery Support
System: Expenses for support funds

Notes:
1. Expenditure of some project's items are not necessarily added on one policy area but separately added on two or more policy
areas.
2. Maternity and parental leave benefits under the employment insurance are categorized as "Family". Training subsidies are
categorized as "Active labour market programmes".

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2-3 Social security schemes contained in Social Benefit by category
Category

NameSocial Insurance

Association-Kenpo Health Insurance-Society-managed Health Insurance-

National Health Insurance(Including Medical Care System
for Retired Persons)-

Medical Care System for the Elderlyin the Latter Stage of Life-

Health and Medical Services for the
Aged-Long-term Care Insurance-

Family Allowance
Public Employees

Breakdown list if the program has several components

Employees' Pension Insurance-

Employees' Pension Funds-

Coal Mining Pension Fund-

National Pension-

National Pension Fund-

Farmers' Pension Fund-

Seamen's Insurance-

Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery
Organization, Employees' Mutual
Aid Association-

Mutual Aid Association of Private
School Personnel-

Employment Insurance-

Workmen's Accident Compensation
Insurance-

Child Allowance-

National and Related Public Service
Mutual Aid Association-

Existing Associations, etc.

NTT Corporate Pension Funds, Japan Tobacco Mutual Aid
Association, Japan Railway Group Mutual Aid Association

Local Government Employees'
Mutual Aid Association

Local Government Employees' Mutual Aid, etc.

Yahata Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Yahata Mutual Aid Association , Subsidies for Federation of
National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Association, etc.

Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, etc.

Government Employees' Accident Compensation(Regularservice), Accident Compensation for Government Employeesin Special Service in the House of Representatives, House ofCouncilors, courts, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministryof Defense

Local Government Employees'
Accident Compensation

Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation, etc.

Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan Tobacco
Inc. Corporation, Japan Railway Construction, Transport andTechnology Agency JNR Settlement Administration
Department, etc.

National Public Employees' Pensions-

Local Public Employees' Pensions-

Public HealthExpenses for measures ensuring the medical care delivery
system, Expenses for measures controlling and preventing
infectious diseases, Expenses for measures for the atomic
bomb exposed, Expenses for health and welfare for persons
with disabilities, Expenses for policies on social security
related to the recovery from the great east japan earthquake,etc.

Public HealthServicexiCategory
Public Assistanceand Social Welfare

Name
Public Assistance-Social Welfare

Expenses for promoting safety measures for drugs etc.,
Expenses for preventive measures against child abuse,
Expenses for maternal and child public health service,
Miscellaneous expenses for social welfare, Expenses forsupporting children and child rearing, etc.

Employment Measures

Employment stabilization and promotion of older persons,etc., Expenses for vocational skills development andimprovement, Expenses for supporting vocational skills
development for youth and others, etc.

Aid for War Victims

Pensions to surviving families and ex-servicemen, Expenses
for support of war-bereaved and families of the unrepatriated,
Expenses for support measures for japanese remaining inchina etc., etc.

Local government expenditureexclusively financed by local
revenue

Local government expenditure on medical care exclusively
financed by local revenue, Public care home for Elderly,
Public nursery schools, etc.

Relief System for Sufferers fromAdverse Drug Reactions

Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug Reactions,
Subsidies for specific hepatitis C virus infection

Relief System for Sufferers from
Diseases Infected from Biological
Products-

Small-and-medium Size Enterprise
Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid
System, etc.

-

Mutual Aid System for the
Retirement Allowance for the Staffof Social Welfare Institutions etc.

Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for the Staffof Social Welfare Institutions and Others, Pension Insurance
for Disabled People

Japan Organization for Employmentof the Elderly, Persons with
Disabilities and Job Seekers-

Pollution-related Health Damage
Compensation System-

Asbestos Health Damage Relief
System-Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid
Benefit-

School Expense Assistance/Preprimary Education

Expenses for the primary and secondary education etc.
(School expense assistance), etc.

Support for Those Suffering from
Residual Disability from
Automobile Accidents-

Housing

Miscellaneous expenses for measures against housing
problems

Benefit System for Crime Victims-

Disaster Victims Livelihood
Recovery Support System-

Employment
Measures

Aid for War
Victims

Other Schemes

Breakdown list if the program has several components

Note: Some schemes and projects are categorized in only Administrative costs or Others.

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2-4 Social security schemes contained in Social Benefit by functional category
Category
Old age 1

ILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

This function covers all benefits paid topersons who have withdrawn from thelabour market due to retirement.

 Long-term Care Insurance: Old age care services,
Old age care preventive services
 Employees' Pension Insurance: Old-age pension,
Withdrawal allowances, etc.
 Employees' Pension Funds, Coal Mining Pension
Fund, National Pension Fund, Farmers' Pension
Fund: Old-age pension, etc.
 National Pension: Old-age pension, Old-age welfare
pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Retirement mutual aid
pension, etc.
 Existing Associations, etc. : Retirement benefits National Public Employees' Pensions, Local Public
Employees' Pensions
 Social Welfare: Expenses for promoting daily-life
support measures for the elderly

Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue : Public care home
for Elderly Small-and-medium Size Enterprise Retirement
Allowance Mutual Aid System, etc. : Severance
benefits Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc. :Severance allowances
Survivors 2This function covers benefits arisingfrom the death of a protected person.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance, Societymanaged Health Insurance, National Health
Insurance, Medical Care System for the Elderly in
the Latter Stage of Life, Seamen's Insurance,
Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance :Support for funeral expenses, Funeral service fees
 Employees' Pension Insurance : Survivors' pension
 National Pension : Survivors' basic pension, Lump
sum payments for survivors, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations : Survivors' pension, Lump
sum payments for survivors, Support for funeral
expenses, etc.
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation : Funeral compensation
 Public Health: Expenses for in fections disease control,
Measures for atomic bomb survivors
 Aid for War Victims: Survivors' pension, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions : Survivors' pension, Funeral service
expenses
 Relief System for Sufferers from Diseases Infectedfrom Biological Products : Survivors' pension,
Funeral service expenses
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
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Examples in Japan
Condolence payments, etc.
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System : Survivors' compensation, Survivor's lumpsum payments
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Special
survivor condolence money, Funeral service
expense, etc.
 Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payments for death, etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims : Survivors'
benefits

Invalidity benefits

This function covers any benefit arisingfrom the partial or total inability of aprotected person to participate in gainful
employment due to a non-occupational
chronic condition owing to disease or
injury or by reason of the loss of amember or a function.

 Employee's Pension Insurance: Disability pension,
Disability allowances National Pension: Disability pension, Disability
basic pension
 Mutual Aid Associations: Disability pension,
Disability mutual aid pension benefits Public Health: Expenses for infectious disease
control, Measures for atomic bomb survivors, etc.
 Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities, etc.
 Aid for War Victims: Expenditures on therapeutic
appliances, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue : Public facility forpeople with disabilities, etc.
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Disability pension, etc.
 Mutual Aid System for the Retirement Allowance for
the Staff of Social Welfare Institutions etc.:
Disability pension
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Disability compensation, Medical careallowances, etc.
 Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Medicalcare allowance Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit:
Consolation payment for disability, etc.
 Support for Those Suffering from Residual Disability
from Automobile Accidents: Care expenses etc.
 Benefit System for Crime Victims: Disability
benefits, Benefit for serious wounds or sickness, etc.

Employment injury

This function covers any benefit paid bya work injury program for work-related
injury, disease, incapacity and death ofa protected person. It also covers theinjury, disease, incapacity and death ofa protected person occurring evenfollowing the cessation of theemployment which caused the state.

xiv Seamen's Insurance: Medical benefit (Employment
injury), Pension benefit (Employment injury)
 Workmen's Accident Compensation Insurance National and Related Public Service Mutual Aid
Association: Disability benefit (Government
employees injury), Survivors’ benefit (Government
employees injury)
 Government Employees' Accident Compensation,
Local Government Employees' Accident
Compensation, Public Corporation Staffs' Accident
Compensation: Medical benefit, etc.

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Sickness and health 3

ILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

This function covers any benefit
provided with a view to maintaining,
restoring or improving the health of theperson protected and his ability to workand to attend to his personal need. It
includes benefits paid for the loss ofearnings due to absence from work
necessitated by an acute condition due
to disease or injury requiring medical
treatment or supervision.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance, Societymanaged Health Insurance, National Health
Insurance, Medical Care System for the Elderly in
the Latter Stage of Life, Seamen's Insurance:
Medical care benefit, Sickness and injury allowance,
Specific medical checkups and counseling in healthinsurance schemes, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Short-term (medical)
benefit, Temporary absence from work benefitPublic Health: Expenses for measures controlling andpreventing infectious diseases, Expenses formeasures for the atomic bomb exposed, etc.

Social Welfare: Expenses for health and welfare for
persons with disabilities, Expenses for maternal andchild public health service, etc.

 Aid for War Victims: Medical expenses
 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Medical benefit
 Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation
System: Medical benefit Asbestos Health Damage Relief System: Medical
benefit Japan Sport Council Mutual Aid Benefit: Medical
benefit

Family benefits

This function covers benefits which areprovided to families in order to meetwith costs and needs related to childraising and the support of otherdependents.
Generally family benefits are provided
for children up to a certain age limi

Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue : Local government
expenditure on medical care exclusively financed
by local revenue, etc.

 Association-Kenpo Health Insurance, Societymanaged Health Insurance, National Health
Insurance, Seamen's Insurance : Lump sum
payments for maternity and parental leave, etc.


Employment Insurance : Parental leave benefit, Careleave benefit Child Allowance (Jido Teate): Benefit, Expenditures
for child and child-rearing support services in local
communities, etc.
 Mutual Aid Associations: Various expenses formaternity and childcare, Parental leave benefit, Careleave benefit
 Public Health: Pension for children with disabilities,
supplemental benefits for long-term care
 Social Welfare: Special allowance for child rearing,Child rearing allowance, etc.
Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue : Public nurseryschools, etc.

 Relief System for Sufferers from Adverse Drug
Reactions: Pension for children with disabilities
 School Expense Assistance/Pre-primary Education

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Unemployment

Housing

Social assistance andothersILO Definitions

Examples in Japan

This function covers any benefit
provided to a protected person arisingfrom the loss of gainful employment.

 Employment Insurance4: Jobseeker allowance,
Allowance for employment maintenance, etc.

Benefits provided (on a means-tested
basis) to assist with the cost of
housing.

 Public Assistance: Housing assistance

Benefits in cash or in kind provided toindividuals or certain targeted groups
who require specific assistance in orderto obtain a defined minimum level ofincome and to meet minimum
subsistence requirements. The majorityof these benefits are provided on ameans-tested basis to individuals w
hose income(whether from active employment orfrom pension benefits) falls below thepoverty line level.

 Employment Measures: Employment stabilizationand promotion of older persons, etc.

 Housing : Miscellaneous expenses for measures against
housing problems
 Mutual Aid Associations: Accident benefits, etc.
 Public Health: Assistance for residents affected by the
nuclear Incidents
 Public Assistance5: Livelihood assistance,
Occupational assistance, etc.
 Social Welfare: Support for victims of natural
disaster Aid for War Victims: Assistance for repatriates, etc.
 Local Government Expenditure Exclusively
Financed by Local Revenue : Welfare office, etc.
 Disaster Victims Livelihood Recovery Support
System: Expenses for support funds

Notes:
1. Medical expenses for elderly are included in the "Sickness and health" category.
2. Of pensions paid to survivors, expenditures provided from the accident compensation scheme are included in the "Employment
injury" category.
3. Expenditures provided from the workmen's accident compensation scheme are included in the "Employment injury" category.
Medical aid in public assistance is included in the "Social assistance and others" category.
4. Maternity leave benefit and family- care leave benefit in continuous employment are included in "Family".
5. Housing aid in public assistance is included in the "Housing" category.

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