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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%.
The Court's decision hinged on an examination of laws relating to treatment of hibakusha, governmental agency directives that interpreted those laws, and an earlier decision of the Court related to hibakusha who were not Japanese citizens: [1] 1957: The Act on Medical Care for Atomic Bomb Survivors
Organ transplantation in Japan is regulated by the 1997 Organ Transplant Law which legalized organ procurement from "brain dead" donors. [1] After an early involvement in organ transplantation that was on a par with developments in the rest of the world, attitudes in Japan altered after a transplant by surgeon Juro Wada in 1968 failed, and a subsequent ban on cadaveric organ donation lasted 30 ...
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.
Workers' accident compensation insurance (労働者災害補償保険, rōdōsha saigai hoshō hoken) is a government insurance program in Japan.It pays benefits to workers (or their survivors) if the insured worker suffers injury, illness, or death due to circumstances related to his or her work related duties or commuting.
Japan has criminalized online insults, making cyberbullying punishable by up to a year in prison, extending the statute of limitations and amplifying the fine, in the wake of a reality star's suicide.
Medical treatment is paid for by the state. [62] In the past, there reportedly has been one doctor for every 700 inhabitants and one hospital bed for every 350 inhabitants. [62] Health expenditures in 2001 were 2.5 percent of gross domestic product, and 73 percent of health expenditures were made in the public sector. [62]
In February, a justice ministry panel proposed raising the age of consent in Japan as part