Year	Prime Minister	Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare	Background to the Era	Measures, etc.
2011	Kan	Hosokawa (from September)	2010 Act on Partial Revision of the National Health Insurance Act, etc. in Ensuring Stable Operation of the Health Care Insurance System (financial support measures necessary to restrain the level of increase in premiums, etc.) 2010 Agreement between Japan and Brazil on social security signed (Effective on March 1, 2012) 2010 Agreement between Japan and Switzerland on social security signed (Effective on March 1, 2012) 2010 Act on Payment of Child Allowance for Fiscal 2010 2010 Act on Arrangement of Relevant Acts to Support Community Life of Persons with Disabilities, etc. until Health and Welfare Measures for Persons with Disabilities are Reviewed based on the Discussions at Headquarters to Promote Reform of the System for Persons with Disabilities 2011 Act on Partial Revision of the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (raising the daily amount of wages, etc.) 2011 Act on Support for Employment of Specified Job Seekers through the Provision of Vocational Training, etc. 2011 Act on Partial Revision of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, etc. for Strengthening Long-Term Care Service Infrastructures 2011 Act on Special Measures concerning Payment of Child Allowance for Fiscal 2012 2012 Amendment to the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (extension of measures to extend the duration of benefits, etc.) 2012 Amendment to the Child Allowance Act (a new child allowance system with raised eligible age to until before junior high school graduation and increased benefit with consideration given to the subjects of the child allowance system, etc.) 2012 Act on Partial Revision of the Act for Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatch Undertakings and Improved Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers 2012 Amendment to the National Health Insurance Act (making measures to improve the financial basis of National Health Insurance operated by municipalities permanent, promotion of changing the unit of operation of National Health Insurance to the prefectural level, etc.) 2012 Act on Partial Revision of the National Pension Act, etc. in Order to Strengthen the Financial Ground and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (shortening the period required for receipt, etc.) 2012 Act on Partial Revision of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Unifying Employees' Pension Insurance Systems 2012 Amendment to the Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons (abolishment of the system for limiting the subjects of the continued employment system, etc.) 2012 Act on Partial Revision of the Act on Partial Revision of the National Pension Act, etc. (setting the FY2012 and FY2013 state subsidy rate of the basic pension at 50%, etc.) 2012 Act on the Payment of Supplementing Allowance for Pensioners 2012 Agreement between Japan and India on social security signed 2013 New Waterworks Vision 2013 Act on Partial Revision of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Securing the Soundness and Reliability of Public Pension Insurance Systems (review of employees' pension fund systems, response to the issues concerning conflicts of pension records of category-3 insured persons) 2013 Amendment to the Health Insurance Act (extension of financial support for the Japan Health Insurance Association, etc.) 2013 Act on Partial Revision of the Act on Mental Health and Welfare for the Mentally Disabled 2013 Act on Partial Revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, etc. (strengthening of safety measures, establishment of regulations on safety measures, that take into consideration the characteristics of medical devices, establishment of regulations on safety measures, that take into consideration the characteristics of regenerative medicine) 2013 Act on Partial Revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the Pharmacists Act (establishment of rules on sales methods of OTC drugs, prohibition of possession of designated drugs, etc.) 2013 Agreement between Japan and Hungary on social security signed (enacted on January 1, 2014)
2012	Noda	Komiyama (from September)
2012	Mitsui (from October)
2012	Tamura (from December)