### 3. Chronological Table

Year	Prime Minister	Minister of Health and Welfare	Minister of Labour	Background to the Era	Measures, etc.
1938	Konoe	1938 Establishment of Ministry of Health and Welfare	1937 Health Center Act
Kido	1938 National Health Insurance Act
Hiranuma	Hirose	1939 Employees Health Insurance Act, Mariners Insurance Act
Abe	Obara, Akita	1941 Workers Pension insurance Act
Yonai	Yoshida	1944 Employees' Pension Insurance Act
Konoe	Yasui, Kanemitsu	1944 Employees' Pension Insurance Act
Tojo	1945 Repatriation measures
Koiso	Hirose, Aikawa	1946 Former Public Assistance Act
Suzuki (K)	Okada	1946 Labour Relations Adjustment Act
Higashikuni	Matsumura	1947 New Health Center Act
Shidehara	Ashida	1947 Food Sanitation Act
Yoshida	Kawai, Ichimatsu	1947 Child Welfare Act
Katayama	Katayama, Ichimatsu	Yonekubo	1947 First baby boom	1947 Labour Standards Act
1947 Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act
1947 Employment Security Act
1947 Unemployment Insurance Act
1948 Preventive Vaccinations Act
1948 Medical Care Act
1948 Medical Practitioners Act, Dental Practitioners Act, Act on Public Health Nurses, Midwives and Nurses
Yoshida	Yoshida	Yoshida	1949 Act on Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons
Hayashi (J)	Masuda	1949 Labour Union Act
Suzuki (M)	1949 Emergency Unemployment Measures Act
1950 Mental Hygiene Act
Kurokawa	Hori	1950 New Public Assistance Act
Hashimoto (Ryugo)	1951 Tuberculosis Prevention Act
Yoshitake	1951 Social Welfare Service Act
Yoshitake	1951 Children's Charter
Yamagata	Totsuka	1952 Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors
Kosaka	1954 Public Cleansing Act
Kusaba	1954 Amendment to the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (introduction of a fixed portion and an increase in the pensionable age to the 60)
1955	Hatoyama	Tsurumi	Chiba	1957 Water Supply Act
Kawasaki	Nishida	1958 Amendment to the National Health Insurance Act (insurance coverage for whole population)
Kobayashi	Kuraishi	1958 Vocational Training Act
Ishibashi	Ishibashi	1959 National Pension Act (universal pension coverage)
Kanda	Matsuura	1960 Act on Welfare of Mentally Retarded Persons
Kishi	Horiki	Ishida	1960 Pharmaceutical Affairs Act
Hashimoto (Ryugo)	Kuraishi
Sakata
Watanabe (R)	Matsuno
Ikeda	Nakayama	Ishida	1961 Child Rearing Allowance Act
Furui	1963 Act on Social Welfare Service for Elderly
Nadao	Fukunaga
Nishimura	Ohashi
Kobayashi (T)	1964 Maternal and Child Welfare Act
Kanda	Ishida	1964 Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance
Sato	Suzuki (Z)	Kodaira	1965 Amendment to the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (¥10,000 pension, Employees' Pension Fund)
Yamate	1965 Maternal and Child Health Act
Bo	Hayakawa	1965 Amendment to the Mental Hygiene Act (introduction of public-funded hospital visit medical care)
1966 Amendment to the National Health Insurance Act (70% benefit introduced)
Sonoda	Ogawa	1966 Employment Countermeasures Act
Saito (N)	Hara	1967 Basic Act on Pollution Control Measures
1967 First-Term Basic Employment Measures Plan
1969 Amendment to the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (¥20,000 pension)
1970 Waste Management Act
1970 Five-Year Plan for the Emergency Provision of Social Welfare Facilities
Uchida	Nohara	1970 Home Work Act
Saito (N)	Hara	1971 Child Allowance Act
1971 Act on Stabilization of Employment of Elderly Persons
1971 Dollar shock