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Health, Labor and Welfare MinistryFull-time workers' average monthly wages declined 15 percent in 2009 from the previous year to ¥294,500, dropping for the fourth straight year and the sharpest fall since 1976, when comparable data became available, the labor ministry said Wednesday "The rate of decline in total wages must have been even faster since the ministry data does not include overtime pay and semiannual bonuses that fluctuate significantly depending on the ups and downs of the economy," an official with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.February 24, 2010
News Quote: "Full-time workers' average monthly wages declined 15 percent in 2009 from the previous year to ¥294,500, dropping for the fourth straight year and the sharpest fall since 1976, when comparable data became available, the labor ministry said Wednesday "The rate of decline in total wages must have been even faster since the ministry data does not include overtime pay and semiannual bonuses that fluctuate significantly depending on the ups and downs of the economy," an official with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said." - Japan12:57 AM
February 16, 2010
News Quote: "The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said, without providing many details, that it found out about the four cases when it sent written inquiries to hospitals and other medical facilities nationwide in which it instructed them not to cooperate with illegal transplant brokers and urged them to report suspicious cases." - Japan12:19 AM
February 15, 2010
News Quote: "The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said, without giving details, that the discovery was made following its written inquiries to hospitals and other medical facilities nationwide, in which it instructed them not to cooperate with illegal transplant brokers and urged them to report suspicious cases." - Japan7:21 AM
February 02, 2010
News Quote: "Average monthly wages at companies with at least five employees fell 39 percent in 2009 from the previous year to ¥315,164, marking the biggest percentage drop since officials began compiling comparative data in 1991, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Tuesday." - Japan12:49 AM
February 01, 2010
January 31, 2010
News Quote: "The results came up in the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's survey on health damage involving household articles and others reported by hospitals across the country in the year to March 2009." - Japan12:36 AM
News Quote: "The results were shown in the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's survey on health damage involving household articles and others reported by hospitals across the country during the year to March 2009." - Japan11:48 AM
January 24, 2010
News Quote: "Japan's relative poverty rate as of 2007 stood at 157 percent, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced last October." - Japan12:35 AM
Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is in the news with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.12:35 AM
January 20, 2010
News Quote: "The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry approved Wednesday the domestic use of swine flu vaccines made by British and Swiss companies, paving the way for their distribution around early February with inoculations beginning in midmonth." - Japan12:31 AM
January 14, 2010
News Quote: "The population dynamics estimate of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry indicates that Japan's population decline is accelerating." - Japan12:15 AM
December 23, 2009
News Quote: "A group of about 10 women who used to work at "kyabakura" bars as hostesses have unionized to demand better treatment for such workers "The bar where I used to work didn't pay me my full wages, and I was a target of malicious sexual harassment by its male manager," their leader, who asked to be identified as Rin Sakurai, told a news conference Tuesday at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry." - Japan12:40 AM
December 22, 2009
December 16, 2009
News Quote: "Some 10,600 youths of high school age nationwide remain uninsured because their parents have fallen behind in payments of national health insurance premiums, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Wednesday." - Japan1:14 AM
December 08, 2009
News Quote: "Underscoring the effects of the recession, the number of households living on welfare due to job losses and pay cuts rose in all 18 major cities across the nation, data from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry indicates." - Japan12:19 AM
December 01, 2009
News Quote: "Most of the cases are believed to have involved patients with swine flu, and the strange behavior is thought to have occurred regardless of whether they were given the drug Tamiflu, according to a report submitted to a research group at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry." - Japan12:33 AM
November 30, 2009
News Quote: "Most of the cases are believed to have involved those who had the new H1N1 strain of influenza and the strange behavior is thought to have happened regardless of whether they were given the drug Tamiflu, according to a report submitted to a research group at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry." - Japan11:53 AM
November 26, 2009
News Quote: "While the new yearly figure represents the fourth consecutive time the record has been broken, the gain was sharply lower than the 187 percent surge seen in fiscal 2007, the annual report compiled by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said." - Japan12:40 AM
November 20, 2009
News Quote: "According to the survey, 451 percent of the victims were suffering from dementia requiring nursing care, and 402 percent of the abusers were the victims' sons, followed by their husbands at 173 percent, daughters at 151 percent and daughters-in-law at 85 percent." - Japan1:38 AM
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