The law collection

Health insurance for employees and their dependents: it pays for medical treatment and gives cash benefits for illness, injury, childbirth and death not caused by work, funded by premiums that employers and employees generally share half and half, with the national treasury bearing, within its budget each year, the cost of administering the scheme and subsidizing part of the Association's benefits.

Japan's employees' pension insurance (厚生年金保険): which workplaces must join, who is insured — employees under 70 at those workplaces, public employees and private school staff included, apart from those Article 12 leaves out, such as day, short-term and seasonal workers and some part-time workers — the contributions employer and employee share on standardized pay and bonuses, and the old-age, disability and survivors' benefits it pays.

Japan's national pension (国民年金): who is insured — people living in Japan from 20 to 59, everyone in the Employees' Pension Insurance, and their dependent spouses aged 20 to 59 — what category 1 insured persons pay, and the basic pensions it pays in old age, on disability and on a death.