Year	Prime Minister	Minister of Health and Welfare	Minister of Labour	Background to the Era	Measures, etc.
1975	-	TsuHahara	1971 Second baby boom	1972 Sapporo Olympics	1973 Amendment to the Act on Social Welfare Service for Elderly (free medical care for the elderly)
Tanaka	Shiomi	Tamura
K. Saito	Katou	1973 First year of welfare 1973 Oil shock	1973 Amendment to the Health Insurance Act (70% benefit for dependents, and high-cost medical care expenses)
Hasegawa	1973 Pension system reform (¥50,000 pension, commodity price sliding scale system introduced)
Fukunaga	Okubo	1974 Employment Insurance Act
Miki	S. Tanaka	Hasegawa	1975 International Women's Year	1977 Amendments to the Employment Insurance Act (start of employment security programs)
Hayakawa	Urano	1978 National health improvement measures
Fukuda	M. Watanabe	Ishida	1979 Amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (Stricter new drug approval process, adverse drug reaction recoding system, reevaluation, GMP, etc. are stipulated by law)
Ozawa	Fujii	1979 Act on the Drug Fund for Adverse Reaction Relief
Ohira	Hashimoto (Ryutaro)	Fujii	1979 Act on the Drug Fund for Adverse Reaction Relief
Kurihara
Noro	Fujinami
Z. Suzuki	K. Saito	Fujio	1980 Baby hotel problem	1981 Amendment to the Child Welfare Act, implementation of extended and evening-and night-hour child care
Sonoda	1980 Second Provisional Commission on Administrative Reform (financial reconstruction)
Murayama
Morishita	Hatsumura	1981 International Year of Disabled Persons 1981 U.S.-Japan Trade Friction	1982 Long-term plan concerning measures for people with disabilities
1982 Home helpers (substantial increase, abolition of income restrictions)
1982 Health and Medical Services Act for the Aged
1983 Purification Tank Act
Nakasone	Y. Hayashi	Oono	Population concentration in Tokyo	1983 Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control
K. WAtabe	Sakamoto	1984 Amendment to the Health Insurance Act (90% benefit for insured persons, and medical care system for the retirees)
Masuoka	Yamaguchi	Appreciation of yen	1985 Pension system reform (introduction of Basic Pension, etc.)
1985 Amendment to the Medical Care Act (medical care plans)
1985 Human Resources Development Promotion Act
1985 Worker Dispatch Act
1985 Act on Equal Employment Opportunity and Treatment between Men and Women
1986 Amendment to the Health and Medical Services Act for the Aged (health services facilities for the elderly)
Imai	Y. Hayashi	Steep rise in land price	1986 Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons (employers are obliged to endeavor to introduce the 60-year-old retirement age)
J. Saito	Hirai	Bubble economy	1987 Certified Social Workers and Certified Care Workers Act 1987 Amendment to the Mental Hygiene Act (human rights protection, social rehabilitation, change of the law title into the Mental Health Act)
1987 Amendment to the Labour Standards Act (aiming at 40-hour working week)
1988 Second national health improvement measures
1988 Amendment to the National Health Insurance Act (stabilization of the insurance system management for municipalities incurring high medical care expenses)
Takeshita	Fujimoto	Nakamura	1988 Tax reform	1989 Pension system reform (completely automatic commodity price sliding scale system, National Pension Fund)
J. Koizumi	H. Niwa	1989 Change of era	1989 Formulation of Gold Plan
1989 Amendment to the Employment Insurance Act (expansion of scope into part-time workers)
Uno	Horiuchi	1990 Amendment to the National Health Insurance Act (establishment of an insurance base stabilization system)
Kaifu	Toida	Fukushima	1990 Iraqi invasion into Kuwait	1990 Amendment to the eight laws on welfare services for the elderly including Act on Social Welfare Service for Elderly (clarification of status of in-home welfare service, enhancement of support system for such service; integrated management bymunicipalities of in-home and facility welfare services; formulation of plans on health and welfare service for the elderly; expansion of the scope of facilities for disabled persons, etc.)
Tsuahima	TsuHahara	1990 Birth of a united Germany	1990 Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons (employers are obliged to endeavor to assure reemployment up to 65 years old.)
1991 Amendment to the Health and Medical Services Act for the Aged (home-visit nursing care system)
Shimojo	Ozato	1990 Total fertility rate marks 1.57.	1991 Child Care Leave Act
1991 Act for Securing Manpower for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
1992 Amendment to the Health Insurance Act (introduction of mid-term financial management)
1992 Amendment to the Medical Care Act (introduction of the idea of providing medical care)
Miyazawa	Yamashita	Kondo	Land price begins to fall.	1992 Act on Assurance of Work Forces of Nurses and Other Medical Experts
1993 Amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the Foundation for Drug Research and Adverse Reaction Relief Act (promotion of research and development of pharmaceuticals and medical devices for rarely diseases)
Y. Niwa	Murakami	1993 Act on the Promotion of Research, Development and Dissemination of Social Welfare Equipment
1993 Amendment to the Mental Health Act (provision on group homes introduced in law)
Hosokawa	Ouchi	Sakaguchi	1993 New Long-term Program for Government Measures for Disabled Persons 1993 Part-Time Workers Act
Hata	K. Hatoyama	1993 Amendment to the Labour Standards Act (introduction of 40-hour working week in principle; introduction of irregular working hour system)
1993 Employment support total programs 1994 The 21st Century Welfare vision 1994 Community Health Act (reinforcement of functions of health centers) 1994 Amendment to the Health Insurance Act (review of a benefit for inpatient dietary therapy, discontinuance of nursing offered by nursing attendants)