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(March 6, 2008)
Cut cozy ties between politicians, bureaucrats and pharmaceutical company in order to eliminate drug-induced diseases!
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(March 6, 2008)
Opposition parties together hold rally demanding cancellation of medical-care system forcing the elderly to pay more
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(February 29, 2008)
Opposition parties together submit bill to revoke adverse medical-care system for elderly
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(February 28, 2008)
Citizens’ groups stage protests against new medical system for the elderly
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(February 8, 2008)
High blood pressure patients to be excluded from health checkups under new medical-care system for the elderly
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(February 4, 2008)
Stop the new ‘medical-care system for the elderly’
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(December 18, 2007)
Panel proposes to maintain discredited A-bomb illness recognition system
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(December 15, 2007)
Plaintiff in drug-induced hepatitis C lawsuit reveals her name
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(December 14, 2007)
Hepatitis C plaintiffs reject court-mediated settlement
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(December 12, 2007)
SIA estimates 20 million pension records as hard to identify
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(December 11, 2007)
Plaintiffs in hepatitis C lawsuits demand relief for all victims
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(December 6, 2007 )
Ruling parties agree to review law on disabled persons’ ‘self-support assistance’
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(December 5, 2007)
Stop consecutive cuts in medical treatment fees
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(December 3, 2007)
Intractable disease patients demand budget increase for treatment
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(December 1, 2007)
Welfare Ministry intends to reduce livelihood protection benefits
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(November 16, 2007)
Government panel to call for lifting of a ban on ‘mixed-medical services’
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(November 15, 2007)
Immediately improve emergency obstetric care system!
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(November 11, 2007)
Government must not lower livelihood protection standards
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(October 31, 2007)
6,500 disabled people participate in rally calling for drastic review of ‘self-support assistance law’
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(October 26, 2007)
JCP Shii calls for relief for all hepatitis patients
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(October 23, 2007)
Health Ministry kept undisclosed for 5 years information on identification of drug-induced hepatitis patients
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(October 14, 2007)
No more death from poverty: national rally held in Kitakyushu
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(October 14, 2007)
Only 27% of young people in their early 20s pay national pension premiums
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(October 1, 2007)
JCP Koike demands cancellation of implementation of unfair system for elderly health care
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(September 28, 2007)
JCP requests government apply disaster relief law to rebuilding houses
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(September 27, 2007)
90 percent of facilities for disabled persons call for abolition of beneficiary-pays principle
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(September 20, 2007)
Former Hansen’s disease patients working to have sanatoriums open to local communities
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(September 18 & 19, 2007)
National convention of elderly calls for struggle to repeal adversely revised healthcare system
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(September 13 & 14, 2007)
The elderly aged 75 and over may have to pay 155,000 yen as yearly medical insurance premium
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(September 7, 2007)
JCP urges government to review disabled person self-support law
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(September 3, 2007)
Government bullies municipalities for not charging for children’s medical costs
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(August 3, 2007)
Japan has fewer physicians per capita than most other OECD countries
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(June 8, 2007)
Government panel calls for further slashing of social welfare programs
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(June 7 & 8, 2007)
14.3 million more pension records reported as unidentified
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(June 6, 2007)
Unidentified pension premium payment total could be as much as 20 trillion yen: JCP Koike
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(June 1 & 2, 2007)
Abe’s rampage is further deepening cabinet crisis: JCP Shii on forcible passage of pension bills
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(June 1, 2007)
50 million pension records remain unidentified
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(May 31, 2007)
LDP and Komei push pension bill through Lower House committee to evade state responsibility for pension fiasco
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(May 17, 2007)
Government plans to invalidate health insurance cards for failure of pension premium payment
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(May 11, 2007)
Health insurance premiums will increase for lower-income elderly but decrease for rich elderly
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(April 4, 2007)
70% of municipalities are without obstetrics care in Nara Pref.
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( March 20, 2007)
Invalidation of health insurance cards actually worsens patients’ illnesses: JCP survey
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(March 15, 2007)
For three diseases, 180-day limitation on insurance-covered rehabilitation to be removed
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(February 23, 2007)
Record number of households stripped of their health insurance cards due to failure to pay premiums
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(February 19, 2007)
Campaign launched to send report to U.N. on government policy adversely affecting disabled children
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(February 15, 2007)
Elderly livelihood protection benefits recipients sue demanding minimum protection of healthy and cultured living
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(February 14, 2007)
JCP Chair Shii urges government not to cut off lifelines for single parent families
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(June 28 & 29, 2012)
Hepatitis-B victims urge gov’t to speed up relief measures
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(March 24&25, 2013)
Welfare minister wants Tokyo to build more certified child-care centers
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(May 22 & 24, 2013)
Number of children waiting for authorized daycare facilities is NOT zero in Yokohama