Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare

The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare (厚生労働大臣, Kōsei Rōdō Daijin), or Kōrō-shō (厚労相), is the Cabinet of Japan member in charge of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, conducting several severe health policies and several severe labour policies. As of October 2019, the current minister is Katsunobu Katō.[1]

List of ministers

Listed below is a list of notable ministers appointed after the merger of departments and ministries in the Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi.

General role

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was established on January 6, 2001 by the reorganization of the central government based on the Basic Law on Reform of the Central Government.[2] The Minister is appointed as Chief Minister of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan.[3][4] The minister is the Secretary of State mainly responsible for social security administration and labor administration. Specifically, it is responsible for the security and improvement of people's lives, the improvement and promotion of social welfare, social security, and public health, and the improvement of legally recruited employees' working conditions and working environments.[5] In addition, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, one of the predecessors of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, draws on the flows of the first and second demobilization ministry, supporting the repatriation, war victims, survivors of the war dead, family members who have not returned, etc. The minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare is also responsible for the reorganization of the army and the former Navy.[6]

Footnotes
  1. "List of Ministers (The Cabinet) | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet". japan.kantei.go.jp. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  2. According to Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Establishment Law（厚生労働省設置法） Supplementary Article 1.
  3. According to National Administrative Organization Law（Japanese: 国家行政組織法） Article 5 Section 1.
  4. According to Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Establishment Law Article 2, Section 2.
  5. According to Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Establishment Law Article 3, Section 1.
  6. According to Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Establishment Law Article 3, Section 2.
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