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  2. Health care system in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Hiroo, Shibuya NTT Medical Center in Tokyo. The health care system in Japan provides different types of services, including screening examinations, prenatal care and infectious disease control, with the patient accepting responsibility for 30% of these costs while the government pays the remaining 70%.

  3. Welfare in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Private health insurance does exist but it is very minor overall. [20] The three different types of insurances in Japan's health-care system have medical services paid by employees, employers, non-employed, and the government. There is the Society-Managed Health Insurance (SMHI) which is for employees in large firms.

  4. Human rights in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Boys and girls have equal access to health care and other public services. Education is mostly free and compulsory through the lower secondary level (age 14 or ninth grade). Education was available widely to students who met minimum academic standards at the upper secondary level through the age of 18.

  5. Japan’s loneliness epidemic is so bad that elderly women are ...

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    Japan, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health Statistics in December. Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone ...

  6. Racism in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Racism in Japan (人種主義, jinshushugi) comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Japan, and have been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices and action (including violence) at various times in the history of Japan against racial or ethnic groups.

  7. Ageing Japan: Robots may have role in future of elder care

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    Individuals can also use nursing care insurance to help cover approved products, but those numbers are tiny. And so far, the robots have not reduced Shin-tomi's personnel costs or working hours.

  8. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare - Wikipedia

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    It was discovered that 95.6% (324 firms) were violating the Labor Standards Law and the Industrial Safety and Health Law. 219 businesses (64.6%) broke the law by having their drivers work behind the wheel more than the legal maximum of eight hours a day and 40 hours a week, or longer than what was agreed upon with their labour union. It also ...

  9. Health in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy in Japan. The level of health in Japan is due to a number of factors including cultural habits, isolation, and a universal health care system.John Creighton Campbell, a professor at the University of Michigan and Tokyo University, told the New York Times in 2009 that Japanese people are the healthiest group on the planet. [1]