国民年金法（こくみんねんきんほう）

The National Pension system, based on the principle prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (2) of the Constitution of Japan, aims to prevent, through the mutual solidarity of the people, the stability of the people's livelihood from being impaired by old age, disability, or death, and thereby to contribute to the maintenance and improvement of a sound livelihood for the people.

The National Pension is to provide the benefits necessary in relation to the old age, disability, or death of the people, in order to achieve the purpose set forth in the preceding Article.

The government administers the National Pension program.

Part of the affairs of the National Pension program may be carried out, as specified by Cabinet Order, by a mutual aid association organized under an Act (hereinafter simply referred to as a "mutual aid association"), the Federation of National Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, the National Federation of Municipal Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, the Federation of Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, which is to administer the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid System pursuant to the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) (hereinafter referred to as "mutual aid associations, etc.").

Part of the affairs of the National Pension program may be carried out by the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward; the same applies hereinafter), as specified by Cabinet Order.

If a significant change occurs in the standard of living of the people or other circumstances, measures for revision of the amount of the pension under this Act must be taken promptly, in order to respond to the circumstances after the change.

The finances of the National Pension program must maintain their balance over the long term, and if they are expected to significantly lose that balance, the necessary measures must be taken promptly.

The government must prepare, at least once every five years, the current state and the outlook over the financial equilibrium period (hereinafter referred to as the "current state and outlook of finances") concerning the revenue and expenditure relating to the finances of the National Pension program, including the amount of premiums and the amount of the national treasury's burden, and the amount of the expenses required for benefits under this Act.

The financial equilibrium period referred to in the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "financial equilibrium period" in Article 16-2, paragraph (1)) is to be approximately 100 years from the year in which the current state and outlook of finances is prepared.

When the government has prepared the current state and outlook of finances under the provisions of paragraph (1), it must make this public without delay.

In this Act, "premium-paid period" means the period obtained by combining: the insured period as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), relating to a premium that has been paid (including a premium collected under the provisions of Article 96; but excluding a premium for which, of the amount that a person has been made not required to pay part of under the provisions of Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), the remaining amount has been paid or collected; the same applies hereinafter) and relating to a premium that a person has been made not required to pay under the provisions of Article 88-2 or Article 88-3, paragraph (1) or (2); the insured period as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii); and the insured period as an insured person prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph.

In this Act, "premium exemption period" means the period obtained by combining the full premium exemption period, the three-quarter premium exemption period, the half premium exemption period, and the one-quarter premium exemption period.

In this Act, "full premium exemption period" means the total of the insured periods, as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), relating to a premium that a person has been made not required to pay under the provisions of Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (1), or Article 90-3, paragraph (1), after excluding the insured period relating to a premium that is deemed to have been paid under the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (4).

In this Act, "three-quarter premium exemption period" means the total of the insured periods, as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), relating to a premium for which three-quarters of the amount has been made not required to be paid under the provisions of Article 90-2, paragraph (1) (limited to a premium for which the one-quarter of the amount other than the three-quarters made not required to be paid has been paid), after excluding the insured period relating to a premium that is deemed to have been paid under the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (4).

In this Act, "half premium exemption period" means the total of the insured periods, as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), relating to a premium for which half of the amount has been made not required to be paid under the provisions of Article 90-2, paragraph (2) (limited to a premium for which the half of the amount other than the half made not required to be paid has been paid), after excluding the insured period relating to a premium that is deemed to have been paid under the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (4).

In this Act, "one-quarter premium exemption period" means the total of the insured periods, as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), relating to a premium for which one-quarter of the amount has been made not required to be paid under the provisions of Article 90-2, paragraph (3) (limited to a premium for which the three-quarters of the amount other than the one-quarter made not required to be paid has been paid), after excluding the insured period relating to a premium that is deemed to have been paid under the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (4).

In this Act, "spouse", "husband", and "wife" include a person who has not made a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship.

In this Act, "the government and implementing bodies" means the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance, and the mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies.

In this Act, "mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies" means the Federation of National Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, the Federation of Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, as implementing bodies of Employees' Pension Insurance.

The administrative affairs to be handled by municipalities pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1) and paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 105, paragraph (2)) and Article 105, paragraph (1) and paragraph (4), are Type 1 statutory entrusted functions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).

A person who falls under any of the following items is an insured person of the National Pension.

A person who has a domicile in Japan and is 20 years of age or older but under 60 years of age, and who does not fall under either the following item or item (iii) (excluding a person who is able to receive an insurance benefit that is a pension whose ground for payment is old age under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954), or any other benefit whose ground for payment is old age or retirement, specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "old-age benefits, etc. under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act"), or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person for whom there is a special reason for excluding the application of this Act; hereinafter referred to as a "category 1 insured person");

An insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance (hereinafter referred to as a "category 2 insured person");

The spouse of a category 2 insured person (limited to a person who has a domicile in Japan, or a student studying abroad or any other person who, although not having a domicile in Japan, is found — taking into account the purpose of travel and other circumstances — to have the basis of their life in Japan, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) who maintains their livelihood mainly through the income of the category 2 insured person (excluding a person who is a category 2 insured person, or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person for whom there is a special reason for excluding the application of this Act; hereinafter referred to as a "dependent spouse"), and who, among such persons, is 20 years of age or older but under 60 years of age (hereinafter referred to as a "category 3 insured person").

For the purposes of applying the provisions of item (iii) of the preceding paragraph, the matters necessary for determining whether a person's livelihood is maintained mainly through the income of a category 2 insured person are specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Chapter III (excluding Article 12 and Article 14) of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993) do not apply to the determination referred to in the preceding paragraph.

An insured person under the provisions of the preceding Article acquires status as an insured person: for a person who does not fall under either item (ii) or item (iii) of paragraph (1) of that Article, on the day on which the person came to fall under any of items (i) through (iii) of this paragraph; for a person under 20 years of age or 60 years of age or older, on the day on which the person came to fall under item (iv); and for any other person, on the day on which the person came to fall under that item or item (v).

When the person reaches 20 years of age;

When the person comes to have a domicile in Japan;

When the person ceases to be a person who is able to receive old-age benefits, etc. under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person for whom there is a special reason for excluding the application of this Act;

When the person acquires status as an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance;

When the person becomes a dependent spouse.

An insured person under the provisions of Article 7 loses status as an insured person on the day following the day on which the person came to fall under any of the following items (or, where, on the day the person came to fall under item (ii), the person further came to fall under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii), or came to fall under any of items (iii) through (v) (limited, in the case of item (iv), to a case where the person became a person able to receive old-age benefits, etc. under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), on that day).

When the person dies;

When the person ceases to have a domicile in Japan (excluding a case falling under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii));

When the person reaches 60 years of age (excluding a case falling under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii));

When the person becomes a person who is able to receive old-age benefits, etc. under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person for whom there is a special reason for excluding the application of this Act (excluding a case falling under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii));

When the person loses status as an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance (excluding a case falling under any item of Article 7, paragraph (1));

When the person ceases to be a dependent spouse (excluding a case falling under Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) or item (ii)).

When calculating the insured period, it is to be calculated by the month, and the months from the month in which the day on which the person acquired status as an insured person falls, up to the month preceding the month in which the day on which the person lost that status falls, are to be included in it.

When an insured person loses status as an insured person in the month in which the day of acquiring that status falls, that month is included in the insured period as one month. However, this does not apply when the person acquires status as an insured person again in that month.

For a person who, after losing status as an insured person, has again acquired that status, the insured periods before and after are aggregated.

When calculating the insured period as a category 1 insured person, the insured period as a category 2 insured person, or the insured period as a category 3 insured person, a month in which there was a change in the category of insured person (meaning the distinction as to whether a person is a category 1 insured person, a category 2 insured person, or a category 3 insured person; the same applies hereinafter) is deemed to be a month during which the person was an insured person of the category after the change. When there have been changes in the category of insured person two or more times within the same month, that month is deemed to be a month during which the person was an insured person of the last category.

An insured person (excluding a category 3 insured person; the same applies in the following paragraph) must notify the mayor of the municipality of matters concerning the acquisition and loss of status, and change of category, and matters concerning change of name and domicile, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The head of the household to which an insured person belongs (hereinafter simply referred to as the "head of household") may make the notification under the preceding paragraph in place of the insured person.

When a notification has been made under the provisions of Article 22 through Article 24, Article 30-46, or Article 30-47 of the Residential Basic Book Act (Act No. 81 of 1967) (limited to a case where a note has been added, under the provisions of Article 29 of that Act, to the document pertaining to that notification), the notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) based on the same grounds as that notification is deemed to have been made.

When the mayor of the municipality has accepted a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (excluding a case where the mayor has accepted a notification concerning a change of name or domicile that is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), the mayor must report this to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

A category 3 insured person must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of matters concerning the acquisition and loss of status, and change of category, and matters concerning change of name and domicile, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. However, this does not apply to matters concerning a change of name or domicile that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Except in a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the notification under the preceding paragraph is to be made: in the case of a category 3 insured person who is a dependent spouse of a category 2 insured person who is a category 1 employees' pension insured person prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as a "category 1 employees' pension insured person"), through the employer who employs the category 2 insured person who is the spouse of that category 3 insured person; and in the case of a category 3 insured person who is a dependent spouse of a category 2 insured person who is a category 2 employees' pension insured person prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "category 2 employees' pension insured person"), a category 3 employees' pension insured person prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "category 3 employees' pension insured person"), or a category 4 employees' pension insured person prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "category 4 employees' pension insured person"), through the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association, the Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Association, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, of which the category 2 insured person who is the spouse of that category 3 insured person is a member or a participant.

The employer who employs a category 2 insured person as referred to in the preceding paragraph means the employer (meaning the employer prescribed in Article 27 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in Article 108, paragraph (3)) of a place of business (meaning a place of business prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) that employs a category 2 insured person who is a category 1 employees' pension insured person.

The employer who employs a category 2 insured person as referred to in paragraph (6) may entrust part of the affairs relating to the routing under that paragraph to a Health Insurance Society established by that employer.

When, under the provisions of paragraph (6), the notification under paragraph (5) has been accepted by the employer who employs the category 2 insured person, or by the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association, the Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Association, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, the notification is deemed to have been made to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare at the time it was accepted.

A person who was a category 3 insured person must, when the person has ceased to be a dependent spouse of a category 2 insured person, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of that fact, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The provisions of paragraph (6) through paragraph (9) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the notification under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare maintains a National Pension register, and records in it the name of the insured person, the acquisition and loss of status, changes of category, the state of payment of premiums, the Basic Pension Number (meaning the symbols and numbers specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are used to carry out affairs concerning the administration of government-administered pension programs (meaning the National Pension program and the Employees' Pension Insurance program administered by the government) and other affairs related to those programs that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

An insured person or a person who was an insured person may, when the person considers that a specified National Pension record relating to themselves that is recorded in the National Pension register (meaning the content of the acquisition and loss of status as an insured person, change of category, the state of payment of premiums, or other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies in this paragraph) is not factual, or that a specified National Pension record relating to themselves is not recorded in the National Pension register, request the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to correct the National Pension register, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must establish a policy on the correction of the National Pension register relating to a request under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article) (referred to as a "correction request" in the following Article).

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to establish or change the policy referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister must consult the Social Security Council in advance.

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that a correction request is well-founded, the Minister must decide to correct the National Pension register relating to that correction request.

Except in a case where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare makes a decision under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister must decide not to correct the National Pension register relating to the correction request.

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to make a decision under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the Minister must consult the Social Security Council in advance.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is, in order to enhance the people's understanding of the National Pension system and improve their confidence in it, to notify each insured person, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, of the necessary information concerning the insured person's record of premium payment and future benefits, in an easily understandable form.

The benefits under this Act (hereinafter simply referred to as "benefits") are as follows.

Old-age basic pension;

Disability basic pension;

Survivors' basic pension;

Additional pension, widow's pension, and death lump-sum payment.

The right to receive a benefit is decided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the claim of the person who holds that right (hereinafter referred to as a "person entitled to receive a benefit").

When preparing the current state and outlook of finances under the provisions of Article 4-3, paragraph (1), the government is, if it is expected that the finances of the National Pension program will be unable to maintain their balance over the financial equilibrium period while holding the reserve fund (meaning the reserve fund of the National Pension Account of the Pension Special Account; the same applies in Chapter V) necessary to prevent a disruption in the payment of benefits at the end of the financial equilibrium period, to adjust the amount of benefits that are pensions (excluding the additional pension) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "benefit amount"), and is to specify by Cabinet Order the fiscal year in which the period for adjusting the benefit amount (hereinafter referred to as the "adjustment period") begins.

When it is found, in the current state and outlook of finances, that the adjustment under the preceding paragraph is no longer necessary, the fiscal year in which the adjustment period ends is to be specified by Cabinet Order.

When the government prepares the current state and outlook of finances during the adjustment period, it must also prepare the outlook for the fiscal year in which the adjustment period ends, and must make this public together with it.

When deciding the right to receive a benefit that is a pension (hereinafter referred to as a "pension benefit"), or when revising the amount of a pension benefit, if a fraction of less than 50 sen arises in the amount of the pension benefit, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 sen or more but less than 1 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 1 yen.

Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the treatment of a fraction of less than 1 yen that arises when calculating the amount of a pension benefit is specified by Cabinet Order.

Payment of a pension benefit is to begin from the month following the month in which the day on which the grounds for payment arose falls, and is to end with the month in which the day on which the right was extinguished falls.

When grounds for suspending the payment of a pension benefit arise, payment is suspended for the portion from the month following the month in which the day on which the grounds arose falls, through the month in which the day on which the grounds ceased to exist falls. However, if these days fall within the same month, payment is not suspended.

A pension benefit is paid, in six installments each year, in February, April, June, August, October, and December, for the portion up to the month preceding each such month. However, a pension that should have been paid in the preceding payment month, or the pension for the installment in a case where the right has been extinguished or the payment of the pension has been suspended, is to be paid even in a month that is not a payment month.

When a fraction of less than 1 yen arises in the amount paid under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, it is to be rounded down.

The total of the amounts rounded down under the provisions of the preceding paragraph during the period from March each year to February of the following year (or, if a fraction of less than 1 yen arises in that total, the amount after that fraction is rounded down) is to be added to the pension amount for the payment month of that February.

If, where a vessel has sunk, capsized, been lost, or gone missing, it is unknown for three months whether a person who was actually on board the vessel at the time, or a person who was on board the vessel and went missing while the vessel was navigating, is alive or dead, or if the death of such a person becomes clear within three months but the time of death is unknown, then, for the purposes of applying the provisions concerning the payment of a benefit for which death is the ground for payment, that person is presumed to have died on the day on which the vessel sank, capsized, was lost, or went missing, or on the day on which the person went missing. The same applies where an aircraft has crashed, been lost, or gone missing, and it is unknown for three months whether a person who was actually on board the aircraft at the time, or a person who was on board the aircraft and went missing while the aircraft was navigating, is alive or dead, or where the death of such a person becomes clear within three months but the time of death is unknown.

For the purposes of applying the provisions concerning the payment of a benefit for which death is the ground for payment, relating to a person who is deemed to have died as a result of receiving an adjudication of disappearance, the term "date of death" in Article 37, Article 37-2, Article 49, paragraph (1), Article 52-2, paragraph (1), and Article 52-3, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the person went missing", and the term "at the time of death" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the person went missing". However, this does not apply to the application of these provisions relating to the familial relationship, age, and state of disability of a person entitled to receive a benefit, or of a person who is a requirement for the payment of a benefit or is the subject of an addition to its amount.

Where a person entitled to receive a pension benefit has died, if there is a pension benefit that should have been paid to the deceased person but has not yet been paid to that person, the spouse, child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, or sibling of that person, or a relative within the third degree of kinship other than these persons, who shared living expenses with that person at the time of that person's death, may, in their own name, claim payment of that unpaid pension.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the deceased person was a person entitled to receive a survivors' basic pension, a child of the insured person or person who was an insured person that, at the time of that person's death, constituted a requirement for the payment of that survivors' basic pension or was the subject of an addition to its amount, is deemed to be a child as prescribed in that paragraph.

In the case referred to in paragraph (1), if the deceased person entitled to receive a benefit had not claimed that pension before death, a person prescribed in that paragraph may, in their own name, claim that pension.

The order of priority of persons entitled to receive an unpaid pension is specified by Cabinet Order.

When there are two or more persons of the same order of priority who are entitled to receive an unpaid pension, a claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made by all of them for the full amount, and a payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.

A survivors' basic pension or a widow's pension is, while the person entitled to receive it is able to receive another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one paid on the same ground for payment as that pension benefit; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), suspended for that period. The same applies to the old-age basic pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive the old-age basic pension is able to receive another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is a pension under that Act (excluding the survivors' employees' pension), and to the disability basic pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension is able to receive another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension).

A person entitled to receive a pension benefit whose payment is to be suspended under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, apply for the suspension of payment to be lifted. However, this does not apply where the suspension of payment of the other pension benefit or the insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in that paragraph relating to that person has been lifted under the main clause of this paragraph, the following paragraph, or a provision specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to these under other laws and regulations.

With respect to a pension benefit whose payment is to be suspended under the provisions of paragraph (1), if payment is made for the portion of the month in which the day on which the grounds for suspending payment arose falls, the application under the preceding paragraph relating to that pension benefit is deemed to have been made at the time those grounds arose.

The application under paragraph (2) (including that application in a case where it is deemed, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, to have been made) may be withdrawn at any time, with effect for the future.

Payment of the full amount of a pension benefit (excluding a pension benefit whose payment is suspended in full under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations) is suspended upon the request of the person entitled to receive it. However, if payment of part of the amount is suspended under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations, payment of the amount of the part not suspended is suspended.

With respect to a pension benefit whose payment of part of its amount is suspended as referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, when the suspension of payment under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations is lifted, payment of the full amount of the pension benefit referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph is suspended.

The request under paragraph (1) may be withdrawn at any time, with effect for the future.

A pension benefit whose payment is suspended under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) is, for the purposes of applying a provision of laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order, deemed not to have had its payment suspended.

The method of the suspension of payment under the provisions of paragraph (1), and other matters necessary for applying the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, are specified by Cabinet Order.

Where the right of a person entitled to receive Pension B to receive it is extinguished because the person entitled to receive Pension B has acquired the right to receive Pension A, or where, for the same person, payment of Pension B is to be suspended and Pension A is to be paid, if payment of Pension B has been made for the portion from the month following the month in which the day on which the right to receive Pension B was extinguished, or the day on which the grounds for suspending payment of Pension B arose, falls, that paid Pension B is deemed to be a payment on account of Pension A.

When, notwithstanding that grounds for suspending payment of a pension have arisen, the pension has been paid for the portion of the period for which it should have been suspended, the pension so paid may be deemed to be a payment on account of the pension that should be paid thereafter. The same applies to the portion that should have been reduced, of a disability basic pension or a survivors' basic pension, in a case where, notwithstanding that grounds have arisen for revising the disability basic pension or the survivors' basic pension by reducing it, the disability basic pension or the survivors' basic pension has been paid, for the portion from the month following the month in which the day on which those grounds arose falls, in the amount without the reduction.

Where, for the same person, payment of an insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one paid by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) is to be suspended and a pension benefit is to be paid, if payment of the insurance benefit that is a pension under that Act has been made for the portion from the month following the month in which the day on which the grounds for paying the pension benefit arose falls, the insurance benefit that is a pension under that Act so paid may be deemed to be a payment on account of the pension benefit.

Where, notwithstanding that the right to receive a pension benefit has been extinguished because the person entitled to receive the pension benefit has died, an erroneous payment of that pension benefit has been made for the portion from the month following the month in which the day of that death falls, if there is a pension benefit to be paid to a person who is to perform the obligation pertaining to the claim for repayment relating to that erroneous payment (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "claim for repayment"), the amount of the payment of that pension benefit may be applied to the amount of the claim for repayment arising from that erroneous payment, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Where a disability or death, or an accident that was the direct cause thereof, has arisen from the act of a third party, if the government has made a benefit payment, the government acquires, to the extent of the value of that benefit, the right that the person entitled to receive the benefit holds against the third party to claim damages.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the person entitled to receive the benefit has received damages from the third party for the same cause, the government is relieved of its obligation to make the benefit payment, to the extent of that value.

When there is a person who has received a benefit by deception or other wrongful means, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may collect from that person the whole or part of an amount equivalent to the amount received.

The right to receive a benefit may not be transferred, provided as security, or seized. However, this does not apply to a case where the right to receive an old-age basic pension or an additional pension is seized by a disposition for national tax arrears (including a disposition governed by the same rules).

Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed based on money received as a benefit. However, this does not apply to an old-age basic pension and an additional pension.

An old-age basic pension is paid to a person who has a premium-paid period or a premium exemption period (excluding one relating to a premium that a person has been made not required to pay under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1)), when that person reaches 65 years of age. However, this does not apply when the period obtained by combining that person's premium-paid period and premium exemption period is less than 10 years.

The amount of the old-age basic pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 780,900 yen by the revision rate (meaning the rate set under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article and revised under the provisions of that Article (excluding paragraph (1)) through Article 27-5; the same applies hereinafter) (if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in that amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen). However, when paid to a person whose number of months of premium-paid periods is less than 480, the amount is the amount obtained by multiplying that amount by the number obtained by dividing the number of months obtained by combining the numbers of months listed in the following items (480 being the maximum) by 480.

The number of months of premium-paid periods;

A number of months corresponding to seven-eighths of the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period (the number of months obtained by deducting the number of months of premium-paid periods from 480 being the maximum);

A number of months corresponding to three-eighths of the number of months obtained by deducting, from the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period prescribed in the preceding item.

A number of months corresponding to three-quarters of the number of months of half premium exemption periods (the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the number of months obtained by combining the number of months of premium-paid periods and the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, being the maximum);

A number of months corresponding to one-quarter of the number of months obtained by deducting, from the number of months of half premium exemption periods, the number of months of half premium exemption periods prescribed in the preceding item;

A number of months corresponding to five-eighths of the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period (the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the number of months obtained by combining the number of months of premium-paid periods, the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, and the number of months of half premium exemption periods, being the maximum);

A number of months corresponding to one-eighth of the number of months obtained by deducting, from the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period prescribed in the preceding item;

A number of months corresponding to one-half of the number of months of the full premium exemption period (excluding one relating to a premium that a person has been made not required to pay under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1)) (the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the number of months obtained by combining the number of months of premium-paid periods, the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, the number of months of half premium exemption periods, and the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, being the maximum).

The revision rate in fiscal year 2004 is 1.

The revision rate is revised each fiscal year based on the rate obtained by multiplying the rate listed in item (i) (hereinafter referred to as the "price change rate") by the rates listed in item (ii) and item (iii) (hereinafter referred to as the "nominal net wage change rate"), and is applied to a benefit that is a pension from April of that fiscal year onward.

The ratio of the price index for the year preceding the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls, to the price index for the year two years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls (meaning the annual average national consumer price index prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; the same applies hereinafter);

A rate that is the cube root of the rate obtained by dividing the rate set forth in (a) by the rate set forth in (b);

The ratio of the average standard remuneration relating to insured persons of Employees' Pension Insurance in the fiscal year two years before that fiscal year, to the average standard remuneration relating to insured persons of Employees' Pension Insurance in the fiscal year in which April 1 of the year five years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls, falls (meaning the average standard remuneration prescribed in Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in this item and in Article 87, paragraph (5), item (ii), (a));

The ratio of the price index for the year two years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls, to the price index for the year five years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls.

The rate obtained by dividing the rate set forth in (a) by the rate set forth in (b).

The rate obtained by deducting, from 0.910, a rate equivalent to one-half of the premium rate under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "premium rate") as of September 1 of the year three years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls;

The rate obtained by deducting, from 0.910, a rate equivalent to one-half of the premium rate as of September 1 of the year four years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls.

The measures for revising the revision rate under the provisions of the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.

With respect to the revision of the revision rate that applies from and after the fiscal year in which April 1 of the year three years after the year in which the first day of the fiscal year in which the person entitled to receive the benefit reached 65 years of age falls, falls (referred to as the "base fiscal year" in Article 27-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) and paragraph (3), item (i)) (hereinafter referred to as the "revision rate from the base fiscal year"), the price change rate (or, when the price change rate exceeds the nominal net wage change rate, the nominal net wage change rate) is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, taken as the basis.

The measures for revising the revision rate from the base fiscal year under the provisions of the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.

With respect to the revision of the revision rate during the adjustment period, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Articles, the rate obtained by multiplying the nominal net wage change rate by the rate obtained by multiplying the adjustment rate (meaning the rate obtained by multiplying the rate listed in item (i) by the rate listed in item (ii) (or, when that rate exceeds 1, 1); the same applies hereinafter) by the special adjustment rate for the fiscal year preceding that fiscal year (or, when that rate is less than 1, 1; referred to as the "calculated rate" in paragraph (3), item (ii)) is taken as the basis.

A rate that is the cube root of the ratio of the total number of public pension insured persons in the fiscal year two years before that fiscal year, to the number calculated, as specified by Cabinet Order, as the total number of insured persons of public pensions (meaning an insured person of this Act or the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) in the fiscal year in which April 1 of the year five years before the year in which the first day of that fiscal year falls, falls (hereinafter referred to as the "total number of public pension insured persons");

0.997.

With respect to the revision of the revision rate during the adjustment period in a case where the nominal net wage change rate is less than 1, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the nominal net wage change rate is taken as the basis.

The special adjustment rate in paragraph (1) means the rate set under the provisions of item (i) and revised under the provisions of item (ii).

The special adjustment rate in fiscal year 2017 is 1;

The special adjustment rate is revised each fiscal year based on the rate obtained by dividing the rate obtained by multiplying the nominal net wage change rate by the adjustment rate, by the calculated rate (or, when the nominal net wage change rate is less than 1, the adjustment rate).

The measures for revising the revision rate under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs are specified by Cabinet Order.

With respect to the revision of the revision rate from the base fiscal year during the adjustment period, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the rate obtained by multiplying the rate listed in item (i) by the rate listed in item (ii) (or, when that rate is less than 1, 1; referred to as the "calculated rate from the base fiscal year" in paragraph (3), item (i), (b)) is taken as the basis.

The price change rate (or, when the price change rate exceeds the nominal net wage change rate, the nominal net wage change rate);

The rate obtained by multiplying the adjustment rate by the special adjustment rate from the base fiscal year for the fiscal year preceding that fiscal year (or, where that fiscal year is the base fiscal year, the special adjustment rate prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article for the fiscal year preceding that fiscal year).

With respect to the revision of the revision rate from the base fiscal year during the adjustment period in a case listed in the following items, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the rate specified in the relevant item is taken as the basis.

Where the price change rate is less than 1 (excluding a case listed in the following item): the price change rate;

Where the price change rate exceeds the nominal net wage change rate, and the nominal net wage change rate is less than 1: the nominal net wage change rate.

The special adjustment rate from the base fiscal year in paragraph (1) means the rate set under the provisions of item (i) and revised under the provisions of item (ii).

The special adjustment rate from the base fiscal year in the base fiscal year is the rate obtained by multiplying the rate set forth in (a) by the rate set forth in (b);

The special adjustment rate prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article for the fiscal year preceding the base fiscal year;

The rate obtained by dividing the rate obtained by multiplying the price change rate (or, when the price change rate exceeds the nominal net wage change rate, the nominal net wage change rate) by the adjustment rate, by the calculated rate from the base fiscal year (or, when the price change rate or the nominal net wage change rate is less than 1, the adjustment rate).

The special adjustment rate from the base fiscal year is revised each fiscal year based on the rate set forth in (b) of the preceding item.

The measures for revising the revision rate from the base fiscal year under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs are specified by Cabinet Order.

A person who has the right to receive an old-age basic pension and who has not claimed that old-age basic pension before reaching 66 years of age may make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to defer payment of that old-age basic pension. However, this does not apply where, when that person reached 65 years of age, the person was a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension (meaning another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one for which old age is the ground for payment); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or where the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day the person reached 65 years of age to the day the person reached 66 years of age.

When a person listed in the following items makes the request under the preceding paragraph (excluding that request in a case where the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day the person reached 66 years of age, the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in the relevant item.

A person who became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension before the day of reaching 75 years of age: the day on which the grounds for paying that other benefit that is a pension arose;

A person who is after the day of reaching 75 years of age (excluding a person falling under the preceding item): the day of reaching 75 years of age.

Payment of the old-age basic pension to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) (including that request in a case where the request under paragraph (1) is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies in the following paragraph) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the day of that request falls.

The amount of the old-age basic pension paid to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, an amount specified by Cabinet Order.

When a person who may make a request to defer payment of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that old-age basic pension after the day of reaching 70 years of age, and does not make the request under that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request under that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day of that claim. However, this does not apply where that person falls under any of the following items.

When the person is on or after the day of reaching 80 years of age;

When the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day of reaching 65 years of age to the day five years before the day of that claim.

The right to receive an old-age basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it dies.

A disability basic pension is paid to a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who, on the date of first receiving medical examination or treatment from a physician or dentist for that illness or injury and an illness resulting from it (hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (hereinafter referred to as the "date of first medical examination"), fell under any of the following items, when, on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed, calculated from that date of first medical examination (or, where that injury or illness was cured within that period, the day it was cured (including the day on which the symptoms became fixed and no further therapeutic effect could be expected); hereinafter referred to as the "disability recognition date"), that person is, because of that injury or illness, in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in the following paragraph. However, this does not apply where, on the day preceding the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, the person had an insured period up to the month two months before the month in which that date of first medical examination falls, and the period obtained by combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period relating to that insured period is less than two-thirds of that insured period.

Being an insured person;

Being a person who was an insured person, who has a domicile in Japan, and who is 60 years of age or older but under 65 years of age.

The disability grade is, according to the degree of disability, Grade 1 and Grade 2 in order from the most severe, and the state of disability for each grade is specified by Cabinet Order.

Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who fell under any of the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, and who was not in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grade") on the disability recognition date, comes, during the period after that date until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade because of that injury or illness, that person may, within that period, claim payment of the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) of that Article.

The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

When the claim under paragraph (1) has been made, the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is paid to the person who made that claim, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph.

With respect to a disability employees' pension under the provisions of Article 47 or Article 47-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as the disability basic pension under paragraph (1), when its amount has been revised under the provisions of Article 52 of that Act, the claim under that paragraph is deemed to have been made at that time.

Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who fell under any of the items of Article 30, paragraph (1) on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "reference injury or illness"), and who is in a state of disability due to an injury or illness other than the reference injury or illness, comes, for the first time, during the period from the disability recognition date relating to the reference injury or illness until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade by combining the disability caused by the reference injury or illness (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "reference disability") with the other disability (limited to a case where the date of first medical examination for the reference injury or illness is on or after the date of first medical examination for the injury or illness other than the reference injury or illness (or, where there are two or more injuries or illnesses other than the reference injury or illness, all of the injuries or illnesses other than the reference injury or illness)), a disability basic pension is paid to that person according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the reference disability with the other disability.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "that injury or illness" in the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "reference injury or illness".

Payment of the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the claim for that disability basic pension was made.

Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who was under 20 years of age on the date of first medical examination, is in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade, on the day of reaching 20 years of age, if the person reaches 20 years of age on or after the disability recognition date, or on that disability recognition date, if the disability recognition date is after the day of reaching 20 years of age, a disability basic pension is paid to that person.

Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who was under 20 years of age on the date of first medical examination (limited to a person who was not an insured person on that date), comes, because of that injury or illness, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade, during the period until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, after the day of reaching 20 years of age, if the person reaches 20 years of age on or after the disability recognition date, or after that disability recognition date, if the disability recognition date is after the day of reaching 20 years of age, that person may, within that period, claim payment of the disability basic pension under the preceding paragraph.

The provisions of Article 30-2, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

When grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise for a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension, a disability basic pension is paid according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities.

When a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension has acquired, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the right to receive a disability basic pension according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities, the right to receive the previous disability basic pension is extinguished.

When grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise for a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension whose payment is suspended for a fixed period, payment of the disability basic pension paid under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities is suspended for the period during which payment of the previous disability basic pension should have been suspended, and during that period, a disability basic pension according to the degree of disability without combining the previous disability is paid to that person.

Where a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension has further acquired the right to receive a disability basic pension, if the newly acquired disability basic pension is one whose payment is to be suspended under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1), the previous disability basic pension is paid to that person, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, for the period during which payment is to be suspended.

The amount of the disability basic pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 780,900 yen by the revision rate (if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in that amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

The amount of the disability basic pension paid to a person whose degree of disability falls under Grade 1 of the disability grade is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount equivalent to 125 percent of the amount specified in that paragraph.

The amount of the disability basic pension is, when there is a child of the person entitled to receive it whose livelihood is maintained by that person (limited to a child who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade), notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each such child (for up to two of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate for each; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amounts, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

When, because the person entitled to receive the benefit has come to have, on or after the day following the day the person acquired that right, a child of that person whose livelihood is maintained by that person (limited to a child who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade), the amount is to be added to under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of the disability basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of coming to have that child falls.

With respect to a disability basic pension whose amount has been increased under the provisions of paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children come to fall under any of the following items, the amount of the pension is revised, according to the number of children who have come to fall under it, from the month following the month in which the day of coming to fall under it falls.

When the child has died;

When the state of the child's livelihood being maintained by the person entitled to receive the benefit has ceased;

When the child has married;

When the child has become the adopted child of a person other than the spouse of the person entitled to receive the benefit;

When the child has ceased to be the child of the person entitled to receive the benefit as a result of dissolution of adoption;

When the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age has ended; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in a state of disability falling under the disability grade;

When, with respect to a child in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, that circumstance has ceased; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age;

When the child has reached 20 years of age.

For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph (1) or item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, the matters necessary for determining whether a child's livelihood is maintained by the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension, or whether the state of that person maintaining the child's livelihood has ceased, are specified by Cabinet Order.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, with respect to a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension, examine that person's degree of disability, and when the Minister finds that the degree falls under a disability grade other than the previous disability grade, revise the amount of the disability basic pension.

A person entitled to receive a disability basic pension may claim, from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, revision of the amount of the disability basic pension on the ground that the degree of disability has increased.

The claim under the preceding paragraph may not be made until after the day on which one year has elapsed, calculated from the day the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension acquired the right to receive it, or the day the person underwent the examination by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of paragraph (1), except in a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a case where it is clear that the degree of disability of the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension has increased.

Where a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension, who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who fell under any of the items of Article 30, paragraph (1) on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness (limited to one whose date of first medical examination is after the date of first medical examination for the injury or illness relating to the disability that was the ground for payment of that disability basic pension; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and in the proviso to Article 36, paragraph (2)), is in a state of disability (limited to one not falling under the disability grade; hereinafter in this paragraph and in the proviso to Article 36, paragraph (2) referred to as "other disability") because of that injury or illness, and, during the period from the disability recognition date relating to that injury or illness until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, the degree of disability obtained by combining the disability that was the ground for payment of that disability basic pension with the other disability (or, where there are two or more other disabilities, the disability obtained by combining all of the other disabilities) has increased beyond the degree of the disability that was the ground for payment of that disability basic pension, that person may claim, from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, within that period, revision of the amount of that disability basic pension.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

When the amount of the disability basic pension has been revised under the provisions of paragraph (1), payment of the disability basic pension in the revised amount is to begin from the month following the month in which the day the revision was made falls.

The right to receive a disability basic pension is extinguished, in addition to being extinguished under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (2), when the person entitled to receive it comes to fall under any of the following items.

When the person has died;

When a person who is not in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act reaches 65 years of age; provided, however, that this excludes a case where, on the day of reaching 65 years of age, three years have not elapsed, calculated from the day the person ceased to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in that paragraph, without having fallen under a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in that paragraph;

When three years have elapsed, calculated from the day the person ceased to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, without having fallen under a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in that paragraph; provided, however, that this excludes a case where, on the day the three years have elapsed, that person entitled to receive the benefit is under 65 years of age.

Payment of a disability basic pension is suspended for six years when the person entitled to receive it is able to receive compensation for disability under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947) for the disability caused by that injury or illness.

Payment of a disability basic pension is suspended, while the person entitled to receive it ceases to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade, for the period the person is not in that state of disability. However, this does not apply where a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension whose payment has been suspended has suffered an illness or been injured, and fell under any of the items of Article 30, paragraph (1) on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, and is, because of that injury or illness, in a state of other disability, and, during the period from the disability recognition date relating to that injury or illness until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, the degree of disability obtained by combining the disability that was the ground for payment of that disability basic pension with the other disability (or, where there are two or more other disabilities, the disability obtained by combining all of the other disabilities) has come to fall under the disability grade.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph.

Payment of a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 is suspended, for the period during which the person entitled to receive it falls under any of the following items (in the case of falling under item (ii) or item (iii), limited to a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).

When the person is able to receive a benefit that is a pension based on the Public Officers Pension Act (Act No. 48 of 1923; including as applied mutatis mutandis under other Acts), a benefit that is a pension under the provisions of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947), or any other benefit that is a pension specified by Cabinet Order;

When the person is confined in a penal institution, a workhouse, or any other facility equivalent to these;

When the person is committed to a juvenile training school or any other facility equivalent to it;

When the person does not have a domicile in Japan.

When payment of the whole amount of the benefit prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph is suspended, the provisions of that paragraph do not apply. However, this does not apply where that suspension of payment is due to the payment of the benefit prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or Article 41, paragraph (1).

When both the amount of the disability basic pension prescribed in paragraph (1) and the amount of the benefit prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph (or, where payment of part of the amount of that benefit is suspended, the amount of the part not suspended; the same applies in the following paragraph) are less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order, the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply. However, this does not apply to the part of that disability basic pension equivalent to the excess amount, when the total of these amounts exceeds that amount specified by Cabinet Order.

When the amount of the disability basic pension prescribed in paragraph (1) is equal to or greater than the amount specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and exceeds the amount of the benefit prescribed in item (i) of paragraph (1), payment of that disability basic pension is not suspended for the part of the excess, notwithstanding the provisions of that item.

When the benefit prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) is an increased pension under the Public Officers Pension Act, a family pension prescribed in Article 75, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act, or any other benefit equivalent to these specified by Cabinet Order, that is paid to a person specified by Cabinet Order on the ground of disability or death, the provisions of paragraph (1), paragraph (3), and the preceding paragraph do not apply.

The method of calculating the amount of the benefit prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) is specified by Cabinet Order.

Payment of a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 is suspended, from October of that year to September of the following year, as specified by Cabinet Order, for the part equivalent to the whole, or one-half (or, in the case of a disability basic pension whose amount has been increased under the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1), one-half of the amount obtained by deducting, from that amount, the amount added under the provisions of that paragraph), when the income of the person entitled to receive it for the preceding year exceeds the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to the presence or absence and the number of that person's spouse with the same livelihood and dependents prescribed in the Income Tax Act (Act No. 33 of 1965) (hereinafter referred to as "dependents and similar persons").

The scope of the income prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the method of calculating its amount, are specified by Cabinet Order.

Where there is a person who has suffered damage, due to an earthquake, storm or flood damage, fire, or any other disaster similar to these, to a residence, household effects, or other property specified by Cabinet Order owned by the person or by that person's spouse with the same livelihood or dependent prescribed in the Income Tax Act, the amount of damage to which (excluding an amount made up for by insurance money, damages, or the like) is approximately one-half or more of its value (hereinafter referred to as a "disaster victim"), the suspension of payment under the provisions of the preceding Article on the ground of the income of that disaster victim for the year preceding, or the year two years before, the year the damage was suffered, is not made, with respect to a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 for the period from the month the damage was suffered until September of the following year.

Where, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the suspension of payment of the disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 has not been made, if the income of that disaster victim for the year the damage was suffered exceeds the amount specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 36-3, paragraph (1) according to the presence or absence and the number of that person's dependents and similar persons, payment of the disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 paid to that disaster victim, that pertains to the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph, is suspended retroactively to the month the disaster victim suffered the damage.

The scope of the income prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the method of calculating its amount, are governed by the scope of the income prescribed in Article 36-3, paragraph (1), and the method of calculating its amount.

A survivors' basic pension is paid to the spouse or child of an insured person or a person who was an insured person, where that person falls under any of the following items. However, in the case of falling under item (i) or item (ii), this does not apply where, on the day preceding the date of death, the deceased person had an insured period up to the month two months before the month in which the date of death falls, and the period obtained by combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period relating to that insured period is less than two-thirds of that insured period.

When an insured person has died;

When a person who was an insured person, who has a domicile in Japan, and who is 60 years of age or older but under 65 years of age, has died;

When a person whose period obtained by combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period is 25 years or more has died.

The spouse or child who may receive a survivors' basic pension is the spouse or child of the insured person or the person who was an insured person (hereinafter simply referred to as the "spouse" or "child") who, at the time of the death of the insured person or the person who was an insured person, had their livelihood maintained by that person, and who fell under the requirements listed below.

With respect to the spouse, sharing a livelihood, at the time of the death of the insured person or the person who was an insured person, with a child who had their livelihood maintained by that person and who falls under the requirement listed in the following item;

With respect to the child, being in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, or being under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, and not currently being married.

When a child who was an unborn child at the time of the death of the insured person or the person who was an insured person is born, for the purposes of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that child is, with effect for the future, deemed to have had their livelihood maintained by the insured person or the person who was an insured person at the time of that person's death, and the spouse is deemed to have shared a livelihood with that child at the time of that person's death.

For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph (1), the matters necessary for determining whether a person's livelihood was maintained by the insured person or the person who was an insured person are specified by Cabinet Order.

The amount of the survivors' basic pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 780,900 yen by the revision rate (if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in that amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to the spouse is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each child who, at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and shared a livelihood with that person (for up to two of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate for each; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amounts, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

When a child who was an unborn child at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension is born, for the purposes of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that child is deemed to be a child who, at the time the spouse acquired that right, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and shared a livelihood with that person, and the amount of the survivors' basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of that birth falls.

With respect to a survivors' basic pension paid to the spouse, where there are two or more children prescribed in paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children excluding one of them come to fall under any of the following items, the amount of the pension is revised, according to the number of children who have come to fall under it, from the month following the month in which the day of coming to fall under it falls.

When the child has died;

When the child has married (including a case of being, without notification of marriage having been made, in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship; the same applies hereinafter);

When the child has become the adopted child (including a person who, without notification of adoption having been made, is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto adoptive relationship; the same applies hereinafter) of a person other than the spouse;

When the child has ceased to be the child of the deceased insured person or person who was an insured person as a result of dissolution of adoption;

When the child has ceased to share a livelihood with the spouse;

When the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age has ended; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in a state of disability falling under the disability grade;

When, with respect to a child in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, that circumstance has ceased; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age;

When the child has reached 20 years of age.

The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to a child is, when there are two or more children who have acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension with respect to the death of that insured person or person who was an insured person, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38, the amount obtained by dividing, by the number of those children, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each of those children excluding one of them (for one of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amounts, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when there is an increase or decrease in the number of children who hold the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, the amount of the survivors' basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of that increase or decrease falls.

The right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it comes to fall under any of the following items.

When the person has died;

When the person has married;

When the person has become an adopted child (excluding a case of becoming the adopted child of a lineal relative by blood or a lineal relative by affinity).

A spouse's right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished, in addition to under the preceding paragraph, when the child prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) comes to fall under any of the items of paragraph (3) of that Article — that child, if there is one child prescribed in that paragraph, or, if there are two or more, all of them, whether at the same time or at different times.

A child's right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished, in addition to under paragraph (1), when the child comes to fall under any of the following items.

When the child ceases, by dissolution of adoption, to be a child of the insured person who died or of the person who had been an insured person;

When the first March 31 after the day on which the child reaches 18 years of age has ended; provided, however, that this does not apply where the child is in a state of disability falling under a disability grade;

When, with respect to a child in a state of disability falling under a disability grade, that condition has ceased; provided, however, that this does not apply where the child is within the period until the first March 31 after the day on which the child reaches 18 years of age;

When the child reaches 20 years of age.

Where compensation for surviving family under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act is to be paid in respect of the death of the insured person or the person who had been an insured person concerned, payment of the survivors' basic pension is suspended for six years from the date of death.

Payment of a survivors' basic pension to a child is suspended during the period in which the spouse has the right to receive a survivors' basic pension (excluding a case where payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended under Article 20-2, paragraph (1) or (2), or under paragraph (1) of the following Article), or in which there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child.

Where the whereabouts of a spouse have been unknown for one year or more, payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended, upon the application of a child having the right to receive a survivors' basic pension, retroactively to the time when the whereabouts became unknown.

The spouse may apply at any time for the cancellation of the suspension of payment under the preceding paragraph.

Where there are two or more children having the right to receive a survivors' basic pension, and the whereabouts of one or more of the children have been unknown for one year or more, payment of the survivors' basic pension to that child is suspended, upon the application of another child, retroactively to the time when the whereabouts became unknown.

A child whose payment of a survivors' basic pension has been suspended under the preceding paragraph may apply at any time for the cancellation of the suspension of payment.

The provisions of Article 39-2, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis where payment of a survivors' basic pension is suspended under paragraph (1), or where the suspension is canceled under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "day on which the increase or decrease occurred" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "day on which the payment was suspended or the suspension was canceled".

The additional pension is paid to a person having a premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1), when that person acquires the right to receive an old-age basic pension.

The amount of the additional pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 200 yen by the number of months of premium-paid periods relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1).

When a National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association is dissolved, the provisions of the preceding two Articles apply by deeming the periods listed in the following items to be, respectively, premium-paid periods relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1).

The period during which the person was a member of the National Pension Fund, relating to contributions paid before that dissolution, excluding the period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the pension for whose payment the National Pension Fund Association is obligated (limited to a period that is a premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87);

The period during which the person was a member of the National Pension Fund forming the basis for calculating the amount of the pension for whose payment the National Pension Fund Association relating to that dissolution was obligated, relating to contributions paid (limited to a period that is a premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87).

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the National Pension Fund, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person who had been a member of the National Pension Fund, is dissolved after that person acquired the right to receive the additional pension, the amount of that additional pension is revised from the month following the month in which the National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association was dissolved.

In the case referred to in paragraph (1), where the National Pension Fund, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person who had been a member of the National Pension Fund, is dissolved after that person acquired the right to receive the old-age basic pension (excluding a case falling under the preceding paragraph), for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 43 to that person, the term "acquires the right to receive the old-age basic pension" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Fund of which the person was a member, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person, is dissolved".

Notwithstanding Article 18, paragraph (1), where the person entitled to receive a benefit has made the request for deferment of payment prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) (including a request deemed to have been made under paragraph (1) of that Article pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article), payment of the additional pension is to begin from the month following the month that contains the day on which that request was made.

The provisions of Article 28, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of the additional pension paid under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "Article 27" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 44".

Where payment of the old-age basic pension is suspended in its entirety, payment of the additional pension is suspended during that period.

The right to receive the additional pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it dies.

The widow's pension is paid to a wife under 65 years of age who was maintained by her husband's livelihood at the time of the husband's death and whose marital relationship with the husband (including a case where no notification has been made but the circumstances are the same as a de facto marital relationship) had continued for 10 years or more, if there is such a wife, in the case where a husband dies who, as of the day preceding the date of death, has a period of 10 years or more combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death (limited to a person having a premium-paid period, or a premium exemption period other than a period relating to a premium not required to be paid under Article 90-3, paragraph (1)); provided, however, that this does not apply where the husband who died had ever received payment of an old-age basic pension or a disability basic pension.

The provisions of Article 37-2, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "insured person or person who had been an insured person" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "husband".

Notwithstanding Article 18, paragraph (1), payment of the widow's pension paid to a wife under 60 years of age begins from the month following the month that contains the day on which the wife reaches 60 years of age.

The amount of the widow's pension is the amount equivalent to three-quarters of the amount calculated, in accordance with Article 27, in respect of the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period, as of the day preceding the date of death, relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death.

The right to receive the widow's pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it reaches 65 years of age, or when that person comes to fall under any of the items of Article 40, paragraph (1).

Where the benefit prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1) is to be paid in respect of the death of the husband concerned, payment of the widow's pension is suspended for six years from the date of death.

The death lump-sum payment is paid to the surviving family members, in the case where a person dies whose number of months, as of the day preceding the date of death, combining the number of months of premium-paid periods, three-quarters of the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, one-half of the number of months of half premium exemption periods, and one-quarter of the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death, is 36 months or more, if that person has surviving family members; provided, however, that this does not apply where the person who died had ever received payment of an old-age basic pension or a disability basic pension.

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the death lump-sum payment is not paid when it falls under any of the following items.

When, on the date of death of the person who died, there is a person who is able to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of that person's death; provided, however, that this does not apply where the right to receive that survivors' basic pension was extinguished in the month that contains that date of death;

When there is a child who was an unborn child on the date of death of the person who died, and, on the day on which that child who had been an unborn child was born, that child or the spouse of the person who died has come to be able to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of the death of the person who died; provided, however, that this does not apply where the right to receive that survivors' basic pension was extinguished in the month that contains the day on which that child who had been an unborn child was born.

The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply where a child of the person who died prescribed in paragraph (1) has acquired the right to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of that person's death (excluding a case where the spouse of that person has acquired the right to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of that person's death), and payment of that survivors' basic pension is suspended under Article 41, paragraph (2) because there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child at the time the right to receive it was acquired.

The surviving family members who are able to receive the death lump-sum payment are the spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, or siblings of the person who died, who shared a livelihood with that person at the time of that person's death; provided, however, that the surviving family member who is able to receive the death lump-sum payment paid in a case falling under paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is the spouse of the person who died, who shared a livelihood with that person at the time of that person's death.

The order of the persons who are to receive the death lump-sum payment (excluding one prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) is in accordance with the order prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

When there are two or more surviving family members of the same order who are to receive the death lump-sum payment, a claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made by all of them for the entire amount, and payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the amount of the death lump-sum payment paid to the surviving family members of a person whose premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1), as of the day preceding the date of death, relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death, is three years or more, is the amount specified in that paragraph plus 8,500 yen.

The provisions of Article 45, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the death lump-sum payment. In this case, the term "the preceding two Articles" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 52-4, paragraph (2)".

Where a person who receives payment of the death lump-sum payment under Article 52-3 is able to receive the widow's pension by reason of the death of the person prescribed in Article 52-2, paragraph (1), one of the death lump-sum payment and the widow's pension is paid, at that person's choice, and the other is not paid.

With respect to the disability of a person who has intentionally caused the disability or the accident that was its direct cause, the disability basic pension for which that disability is the ground for payment is not paid.

With respect to the disability of a person who has caused the disability or the accident that was its cause, or has increased the degree of disability, by an intentional criminal act or gross negligence, or by failing, without justifiable grounds, to comply with instructions concerning medical treatment, payment of the benefit for which that disability is the ground for payment may be withheld in whole or in part. The same applies to the death of a person who has caused that person's own death or the accident that was its cause by an intentional criminal act or gross negligence, or by failing, without justifiable grounds, to comply with instructions concerning medical treatment.

The survivors' basic pension, the widow's pension, or the death lump-sum payment is not paid to a person who has intentionally caused the death of the insured person or the person who had been an insured person. The same applies to a person who, before the death of the insured person or the person who had been an insured person, has intentionally caused the death of a person who was to become a person entitled to receive the survivors' basic pension or the death lump-sum payment by reason of that person's death.

The right to receive the survivors' basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it has intentionally caused the death of another person entitled to receive it.

Payment of a pension benefit may be suspended, in whole or in part of its amount, where it falls under any of the following items.

When the person entitled to receive it has, without justifiable grounds, failed to comply with an order under Article 107, paragraph (1), or failed to respond to questions of the relevant official under that paragraph;

When the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension, or a child prescribed in Article 107, paragraph (2), has, without justifiable grounds, failed to comply with an order under that paragraph, or refused a diagnosis of the relevant official under that paragraph.

Where the person entitled to receive it has, without justifiable grounds, failed to make the notification under Article 105, paragraph (3), or failed to submit documents or other articles, payment of the pension benefit may be temporarily withheld.

The government may, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the National Pension program, carry out the following services in relation to the National Pension.

Carrying out education and public relations;

Providing consultation and other assistance to insured persons, persons entitled to receive a benefit, and other relevant parties (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "insured persons, etc.");

Providing insured persons, etc. with information concerning procedures carried out by insured persons, etc., and other information that contributes to improving the convenience of insured persons, etc.

The government is to operate an electronic data processing system in order to smoothly process the affairs necessary for the implementation of the National Pension program and to contribute to improving the convenience of insured persons, etc.

The government may have the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as the "Service") carry out all or part of the services listed in the items of paragraph (1) and the operation prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

Investment of the reserve fund is to be carried out, with particular attention to the fact that the reserve fund is part of the premiums collected from the insured persons of the National Pension and constitutes a valuable source of funds for future benefits, safely and efficiently, from a long-term perspective, solely for the benefit of the insured persons of the National Pension, for the purpose of contributing to the stability of the administration of the National Pension program into the future.

Investment of the reserve fund is to be carried out by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare depositing the reserve fund with the Government Pension Investment Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, for the purpose of the payment based on investment in accordance with the purpose set out in the preceding Article.

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may deposit the reserve fund with the Fiscal Loan Fund until the deposit under that paragraph is made.

An official of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare who is engaged in the administrative affairs relating to investment of the reserve fund (limited to a person specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to as "investment staff") must perform their duties with prudent and meticulous care and to the best of their ability, in line with the purpose of investment of the reserve fund.

Investment staff must not divulge or misappropriate any secret that has come to their knowledge in the course of their duties.

When it is found that a member of the investment staff has violated the provisions of the preceding Article, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must take disciplinary action against that official under the National Public Service Act (Act No. 120 of 1947).

Beyond what is provided in this Act, investment of the reserve fund is governed by the Act on the Government Pension Investment Fund, Independent Administrative Agency (Act No. 105 of 2004).

The national treasury bears, each fiscal year, the amounts listed below, in order to cover the expenses required for the National Pension program (excluding the expenses prescribed in the following paragraph).

The amount equivalent to one-half of the amount obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by deducting, from the total amount of expenses required for the basic pension benefit (meaning the old-age basic pension, the disability basic pension, and the survivors' basic pension; the same applies below) for the relevant fiscal year (excluding the amounts listed in the following item and item (iii); hereinafter referred to as the "amount subject to premium and contribution calculation"), the amount calculated based on the numbers of months prescribed in Article 27, items (iii), (v) and (vii), by the rate obtained by deducting, from 1, the sum of the rates calculated, for each government and implementing body, as specified by Cabinet Order under Article 94-3, paragraph (1);

The total of the amounts obtained by multiplying the amount of expenses required for the old-age basic pension benefit (limited to one whose amount is calculated under the proviso to Article 27) relating to a person having a premium exemption period for the relevant fiscal year, by the number obtained by dividing the number listed in (a) by the number listed in (b);

The number obtained by adding together the numbers listed below:

The number obtained by multiplying the number of months of the relevant one-quarter premium exemption period (limited to the number of months obtained by deducting the relevant number of months of premium-paid periods from 480) by one-eighth;

The number obtained by multiplying the relevant number of months of half premium exemption periods (limited to the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the total of the relevant number of months of premium-paid periods and the number of months of the relevant one-quarter premium exemption period) by one-quarter;

The number obtained by multiplying the number of months of the relevant three-quarter premium exemption period (limited to the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the total of the relevant number of months of premium-paid periods, the number of months of the relevant one-quarter premium exemption period, and the relevant number of months of half premium exemption periods) by three-eighths;

The number obtained by multiplying the number of months of the relevant full premium exemption period (excluding one relating to a premium not required to be paid under Article 90-3, paragraph (1)) (limited to the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the total of the relevant number of months of premium-paid periods, the number of months of the relevant one-quarter premium exemption period, the relevant number of months of half premium exemption periods, and the number of months of the relevant three-quarter premium exemption period) by one-half.

The number obtained by adding together the numbers of months listed in the items of Article 27.

The amount equivalent to 20 percent of the expenses required for the disability basic pension benefit under Article 30-4 for the relevant fiscal year.

The national treasury bears, each fiscal year, within the scope of the budget, the expenses required for the execution of the affairs of the National Pension program.

The government grants to municipalities (including special wards; the same applies below), as specified by Cabinet Order, the expenses necessary for the processing of affairs carried out by mayors of municipalities under this Act or a Cabinet Order based on this Act.

The government collects premiums in order to cover the expenses required for the National Pension program.

Premiums are to be collected for each month that forms the basis for calculating the insured period.

The premium revision rate under the preceding paragraph for fiscal year 2005 is 1.

The premium revision rate under paragraph (3) is revised each fiscal year based on the rate obtained by multiplying the premium revision rate for the fiscal year preceding the relevant fiscal year by the rate listed below, and applies to the premium for the month falling in the relevant fiscal year.

The ratio of the price index for the year two years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year, to the price index for the year three years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year;

The rate that is the cube root of the rate obtained by dividing the rate listed in (a) by the rate listed in (b).

The ratio of the average standard remuneration relating to insured persons of Employees' Pension Insurance for the fiscal year that contains April 1 of the year three years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year, to the average standard remuneration relating to insured persons of Employees' Pension Insurance for the fiscal year that contains April 1 of the year six years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year;

The ratio of the price index for the year three years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year, to the price index for the year six years before the year that contains the first day of the relevant fiscal year.

Measures for revision of the premium revision rate under the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.

A category 1 insured person (excluding a person who is not required to pay a premium under Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (1), or Article 90-3, paragraph (1), a person who is not required to pay part of the amount of a premium under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), and a member of a National Pension Fund) may, by notifying the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, become a person who pays a premium of 400 yen, in addition to the premium in the amount specified in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, for each month on and after the month that contains the day on which that notification was made.

Payment of a premium under the preceding paragraph may be made only for a month in which the premium in the amount specified in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article was paid (excluding a month in which the premium is deemed to have been paid under Article 94, paragraph (4)), or for each month in the period relating to a premium not required to be paid under Article 88-2 or Article 88-3, paragraph (1) or (2).

A person who has become a person who pays a premium under paragraph (1) may, at any time, by notifying the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, cease to be a person who pays a premium under paragraph (1), with respect to the premium for each month on and after the month preceding the month that contains the day on which that notification was made (excluding a premium already paid, and a premium prepaid under Article 93, paragraph (1) (excluding one relating to each month on and after the month that contains the day on which the person became a member of a National Pension Fund)).

When a person who has become a person who pays a premium under paragraph (1) becomes a member of a National Pension Fund, that person is deemed to have made the request under the preceding paragraph on the day on which the person became a member.

An insured person must pay premiums.

The head of household bears a joint and several obligation to pay the premiums of an insured person belonging to that household.

One of a pair of spouses bears a joint and several obligation to pay the premium of the other, who is an insured person.

An insured person is not required to pay the premium for the period from the month preceding the month that contains the expected date of childbirth (in a case specified by Ministerial Order, the date of childbirth; referred to as the "expected date of childbirth" in paragraph (1) of the following Article, Article 106, paragraph (1), and Article 108, paragraph (2)) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "month of expected childbirth") (in the case of a multiple pregnancy, the third month before the month of expected childbirth) to the second month following the month of expected childbirth.

Where an insured person to whom the provisions of the preceding Article applied raises a child in connection with the childbirth referred to in that Article, the premium for the period from the month containing the day on which three months have passed from the expected date of childbirth until the month preceding the month containing the day following the day on which twelve months have passed from the expected date of childbirth (or, if the child has died, or an event specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an event on account of which the insured person has come to no longer raise the child has arisen, by the day preceding that day, the day following the day on which that event arose) (excluding a period during which the provisions of that Article apply in connection with a child other than that child) is not required to be paid.

An insured person (excluding an insured person prescribed in the preceding paragraph) is not required to pay the premium for the period from the month containing the day on which that person came to raise that person's child (including a child for whom the insured person has requested a family court, under Article 817-2, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896), for the formation of the special adoption relationship prescribed in that paragraph between that child and the insured person (limited to a case where the domestic relations case pertaining to that request is pending in a court) and whom the insured person actually takes care of, a child entrusted, under Article 27, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii)) of the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947), to an insured person who is a foster parent for adoption prescribed in Article 6-4, item (ii) of that Act, and a person entrusted, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to an insured person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person equivalent to these insured persons; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, Article 106, paragraph (1), and Article 108, paragraph (2)) until the month preceding the month containing the day following the day on which that child reaches one year of age (or, if the child has died, or an event specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an event on account of which the insured person has come to no longer raise the child has arisen, by the day preceding the day on which the child reaches one year of age, the day on which that event arose) (excluding a period during which the provisions of the preceding Article apply in connection with a child other than that child).

The amount equivalent to the premiums that are not required to be paid under the preceding two paragraphs is to be, as specified by Cabinet Order, made up for by the child and child-rearing support contribution collected by the government under the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing (Act No. 65 of 2012).

When an insured person (excluding an insured person to whom Article 88-2, the preceding Article, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), apply) comes to fall under any of the following items, the insured person is not required to pay the premium, excluding a premium already paid, for the period from the month preceding the month that contains the day on which the person came to fall under that item to the month that contains the day on which the person ceases to fall under it.

When the person is entitled to receive a disability basic pension, or a benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which disability is the ground for payment, or another benefit for which disability is the ground for payment that is specified by Cabinet Order (excluding a person entitled to receive the disability basic pension for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability falling under the disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability), and any other person specified by Cabinet Order);

When the person receives livelihood assistance under the Public Assistance Act (Act No. 144 of 1950), or other assistance specified by Ministerial Order;

When, in addition to what is listed in the preceding two items, the person is admitted to a facility specified by Ministerial Order.

With respect to a premium that is not required to be paid under the preceding paragraph, where an insured person or a person who had been an insured person (referred to as "insured persons, etc." in the following Article through Article 90-3) has made a request to pay the premium for each month in the period relating to that premium, the provisions of that paragraph do not apply, limited to the premium for the period for which that request was made.

Where a request is made by an insured person, etc. who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide that the premium for the period the Minister designates (excluding a period to which paragraphs (1) through (3) of the following Article apply, and a period during which the person is, or has been, a high school student prescribed in Article 50 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947), a university student prescribed in Article 83 of that Act, or another pupil or student specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "students")) is not required to be paid, excluding a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day on which the request was made, count the period relating to that premium as a full premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (3) (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under Article 94, paragraph (1), the period relating to that retroactive payment); provided, however, that this does not apply where neither the head of household nor the spouse falls under any of the following items.

When the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid (for the premium for the months from January to the month specified by Ministerial Order, the income for the year before the preceding year; the same applies below in this Chapter) is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to whether the person has dependents and similar persons and their number;

When the insured person, or another member of the household to which the insured person belongs, receives assistance other than livelihood assistance under the Public Assistance Act, or other assistance specified by Ministerial Order;

When the person is a person with a disability, a widow, or another person specified by Cabinet Order as a person on whom the municipal inhabitant tax is not imposed under the provisions of the Local Tax Act (Act No. 226 of 1950), as prescribed in that Act, and the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order;

When there is a natural disaster or other cause specified by Ministerial Order as a case where payment of the premium is extremely difficult.

When a disposition is made under the preceding paragraph, for the purpose of applying the provisions concerning the requirements for payment and the amount of a pension benefit, that disposition is deemed to have been made on the day on which the request was made.

Where an insured person who has received a disposition under paragraph (1) requests the rescission of that disposition, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may rescind that disposition with respect to the premium for each month on and after the month preceding the month that contains the day on which that request was made.

The scope of the income prescribed in paragraph (1), items (i) and (iii), and the method of calculating its amount, are specified by Cabinet Order.

Where a request is made by an insured person, etc. who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide that three-quarters of the premium for the period the Minister designates (excluding a period to which paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or the following paragraph or paragraph (3) applies, and a period during which the person is, or has been, a student) is not required to be paid, excluding a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day on which the request was made, count the period relating to that premium as a three-quarter premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (4) (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under Article 94, paragraph (1), the period relating to that retroactive payment); provided, however, that this does not apply where neither the head of household nor the spouse falls under any of the following items.

When the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to whether the person has dependents and similar persons and their number;

When the person falls under item (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article;

When there is a natural disaster or other cause specified by Ministerial Order as a case where payment of the premium is extremely difficult.

Where a request is made by an insured person, etc. who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide that half of the premium for the period the Minister designates (excluding a period to which paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or the preceding paragraph or the following paragraph applies, and a period during which the person is, or has been, a student) is not required to be paid, excluding a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day on which the request was made, count the period relating to that premium as a half premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (5) (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under Article 94, paragraph (1), the period relating to that retroactive payment); provided, however, that this does not apply where neither the head of household nor the spouse falls under any of the following items.

When the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to whether the person has dependents and similar persons and their number;

When the person falls under item (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article;

When there is a natural disaster or other cause specified by Ministerial Order as a case where payment of the premium is extremely difficult.

Where a request is made by an insured person, etc. who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide that one-quarter of the premium for the period the Minister designates (excluding a period to which paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or the preceding two paragraphs applies, and a period during which the person is, or has been, a student) is not required to be paid, excluding a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day on which the request was made, count the period relating to that premium as a one-quarter premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (6) (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under Article 94, paragraph (1), the period relating to that retroactive payment); provided, however, that this does not apply where neither the head of household nor the spouse falls under any of the following items.

When the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to whether the person has dependents and similar persons and their number;

When the person falls under item (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article;

When there is a natural disaster or other cause specified by Ministerial Order as a case where payment of the premium is extremely difficult.

The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis where an insured person who has received a disposition under the preceding three paragraphs requests the rescission of that disposition.

The scope of the income prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), paragraph (2), item (i), and paragraph (3), item (i), and the method of calculating its amount, are specified by Cabinet Order.

If a fraction of less than 5 yen results in the remaining amount, other than the part of the amount that is not required to be paid under paragraphs (1) through (3), it is rounded down, and if a fraction of 5 yen or more but less than 10 yen results, it is rounded up to 10 yen.

Where a request is made by an insured person who is a student, or an insured person, etc. who has been a student, who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide that the premium for the period the Minister designates (limited to a period during which the person is, or has been, a student) is not required to be paid, excluding a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day on which the request was made, count the period relating to that premium as a full premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (3) (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under Article 94, paragraph (1), the period relating to that retroactive payment).

When the income for the year preceding the year that contains the month for which the premium is to be treated as not required to be paid is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order according to whether the person has dependents and similar persons and their number;

When the person falls under Article 90, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii);

When there is a natural disaster or other cause specified by Ministerial Order as a case where payment of the premium is extremely difficult.

The provisions of Article 90, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The scope of the income prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), and the method of calculating its amount, are specified by Cabinet Order.

The premium for each month must be paid by the last day of the following month.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to notify insured persons, each fiscal year, of the amount of the premium, the due date for payment, and other matters specified by Ministerial Order, with respect to the premium for each month of each fiscal year.

Beyond what is provided in the preceding paragraph, necessary matters concerning the method of payment of premiums are specified by Cabinet Order.

Where an insured person makes a request expressing the wish to have the financial institution holding the person's deposit account or savings account withdraw the deposit or savings and pay the premium with the money withdrawn, by entrusting that financial institution with the task (referred to as "payment by account transfer" in Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may approve that request, but only where the payment is found to be reliable, and approving the request is found to be advantageous for the collection of premiums.

An insured person may make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare expressing the wish to have a designated proxy payer advance and pay the insured person's premium, by notifying the Minister of the number, symbol, or other code assigned by a person who is found to be capable of properly and reliably carrying out the affairs of advancing and paying the premiums of insured persons, and whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as a person who falls under the requirements specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "designated proxy payer").

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare receives the request under the preceding paragraph, the Minister may approve that request, but only where the payment is found to be reliable, and approving the request is found to be advantageous for the collection of premiums.

The procedure for the designation under paragraph (1), and other necessary matters concerning payment by a designated proxy payer, are specified by Ministerial Order.

The following persons may, upon entrustment by an insured person (in the case of the person listed in item (i), limited to a member of a National Pension Fund), carry out affairs concerning the payment of premiums (hereinafter referred to as "premium payment services").

A National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association;

A person who is found to be capable of properly and reliably carrying out premium payment services, and whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates as a person who falls under the requirements specified by Cabinet Order.

Where a National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association carries out premium payment services upon entrustment under the preceding paragraph, the term "this Chapter" in Article 145, item (v) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 92-3, paragraph (1) or this Chapter," and, in addition, necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare makes a designation under paragraph (1), item (ii), the Minister must give public notice of the name and address of the person who received that designation, and the location of the person's office.

A person who has received a designation under paragraph (1), item (ii), must, when intending to change the person's name and address or the location of the person's office, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of that fact in advance.

When a notification is made under the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must give public notice of the matters relating to that notification.

When an insured person delivers a premium, based on the entrustment under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, to a person listed in the items of that paragraph who carries out premium payment services (hereinafter referred to as a "payment agent"), the payment agent is responsible to the government for payment of that premium.

When a payment agent receives delivery of a premium from an insured person under the preceding paragraph, the payment agent must, without delay, report that fact and the date of receipt to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as specified by Ministerial Order.

When an insured person delivers a premium to a payment agent under paragraph (1) (in the case of a premium relating to advance payment, when each month of the period relating to the advance payment has elapsed), the insured period relating to that premium is deemed to be a premium-paid period for the purpose of applying Article 5, paragraph (1).

When an insured person delivers, to a payment agent under paragraph (1), a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) (in the case of a premium relating to advance payment, when each month of the period relating to the advance payment has elapsed), the insured period relating to that premium is, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, deemed to be a three-quarter premium exemption period for the purpose of applying Article 5, paragraph (4), a half premium exemption period for the purpose of applying paragraph (5) of that Article, and a one-quarter premium exemption period for the purpose of applying paragraph (6) of that Article.

When an insured person delivers a premium to a payment agent under paragraph (1), payment of that premium is deemed to have been made on the day of that delivery, for the purpose of applying Article 97.

With respect to the amount to be collected that a payment agent is to pay under paragraph (1), the government may collect the remaining amount from the insured person concerned, only where there is a remaining amount still to be collected even after a disposition under Article 96, paragraph (4) has been taken against that payment agent.

A payment agent must, as specified by Ministerial Order, keep books, enter in them matters concerning premium payment services, and retain them.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary for enforcing this Act, to the extent necessary, have a payment agent make a report, as specified by Ministerial Order.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary for enforcing this Act, to the extent necessary, have the Minister's officials enter the office of a payment agent and inspect the payment agent's books, documents, and other necessary articles, or ask questions of relevant persons.

An official who conducts an on-site inspection under the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card, and must present it if requested by a relevant person.

The authority prescribed in paragraph (3) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may rescind a designation under Article 92-3, paragraph (1), item (ii), where a person who has received that designation falls under any of the following items.

When the person has ceased to fall under the requirements for designation prescribed in Article 92-3, paragraph (1), item (ii);

When the person has failed to make a report under Article 92-4, paragraph (2) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, or has made a false report;

where, in violation of the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the person has failed to keep books, has failed to make entries in the books or has made false entries in them, or has failed to retain the books;

where the person has refused, obstructed or evaded an entry or inspection under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, or has failed to answer or has given a false answer to a question under the provisions of that paragraph.

When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare rescinds a designation under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must give public notice of that fact.

An insured person may pay in advance the premium for a fixed future period.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the amount to be paid in advance is the amount obtained by deducting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount of the premium for each month of that period.

In calculating the premium-paid period, or the three-quarter premium exemption period, half premium exemption period, or one-quarter premium exemption period, with respect to a premium paid in advance under paragraph (1), the premium for each month is deemed to have been paid at the time each month of the period relating to the advance payment has elapsed.

Beyond what is provided in the preceding three paragraphs, necessary matters concerning the procedure for advance payment of premiums, the refund of premiums paid in advance, and other matters concerning advance payment of premiums, are specified by Cabinet Order.

An insured person or a person who had been an insured person (excluding a person entitled to receive the old-age basic pension) may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, make a retroactive payment of all or part of a premium that is not required to be paid under Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (1), or Article 90-3, paragraph (1), or a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) (limited to one relating to a period within 10 years before the month that contains the day of approval); provided, however, that, with respect to a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under paragraphs (1) through (3) of that Article, this applies only where the remaining amount has been paid.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, where a retroactive payment is made with respect to part of the premiums, the retroactive payment is to be made first with respect to a premium not required to be paid under Article 90-3, paragraph (1), and then with respect to a premium not required to be paid under Article 89, paragraph (1) or Article 90, paragraph (1), or a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), and, among these premiums, is to be made successively from the premium for the earliest elapsed month; provided, however, that where there is a premium not required to be paid under Article 89, paragraph (1) or Article 90, paragraph (1), or a premium for which part of the amount is not required to be paid under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), for which the obligation to pay arose before that for the premium not required to be paid under Article 90-3, paragraph (1), a retroactive payment may be made with respect to that premium from the premium for the earliest elapsed month.

In the case referred to in paragraph (1), the amount to be paid retroactively is the amount obtained by adding the amount specified by Cabinet Order to the amount of the premium for each month of the period relating to that retroactive payment.

When a retroactive payment is made under paragraph (1), the premium for the month relating to the retroactive payment is deemed to have been paid on the day on which the retroactive payment was made.

Beyond what is provided in the preceding paragraphs, necessary matters concerning the procedure for retroactive payment of premiums, and other matters concerning retroactive payment of premiums, are specified by Cabinet Order.

The government, as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance, bears the basic pension contribution each fiscal year, in order to cover the expenses required for the basic pension benefit.

Mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies pay the basic pension contribution each fiscal year, in order to cover the expenses required for the basic pension benefit.

When the current state and outlook of finances is prepared, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to calculate the estimated amount into the future of the basic pension contribution to be borne by the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance, or to be paid by mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies.

The amount of the basic pension contribution is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount subject to premium and contribution calculation by the rate calculated each fiscal year, as specified by Cabinet Order, as corresponding to the ratio of the total number of insured persons relating to the relevant government and implementing body for the relevant fiscal year (in the case of the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance, category 2 insured persons who are category 1 employees' pension insured persons, and category 3 insured persons who are their dependent spouses; in the case of mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies, the insured persons relating to that mutual aid association, etc. (in the case of the Federation of National Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, category 2 insured persons who are category 2 employees' pension insured persons relating to the mutual aid associations composing that federation, and category 3 insured persons who are their dependent spouses; in the case of the Federation of Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, category 2 insured persons who are category 3 employees' pension insured persons relating to the mutual aid associations composing that federation, and category 3 insured persons who are their dependent spouses; and in the case of the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, category 2 insured persons who are category 4 employees' pension insured persons, and category 3 insured persons who are their dependent spouses; the same applies below)), to the total number of insured persons for the relevant fiscal year.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the total number of insured persons, and the total number of insured persons relating to the government and implementing bodies, are to be calculated based on the persons specified by Cabinet Order among these insured persons, taking into consideration the balance among the manners in which category 1 insured persons, category 2 insured persons, and category 3 insured persons are covered.

Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, necessary matters concerning payment of the basic pension contribution relating to mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies are specified by Cabinet Order.

Each Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Association (in the case of a Mutual Aid Association for Designated City Employees, a Mutual Aid Association for Municipal Employees, or a Mutual Aid Association for City Employees, the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Employees) bears, each fiscal year, as specified by Cabinet Order, the amount calculated as specified by Cabinet Order, taking into consideration, of the amount of the basic pension contribution to be paid by the Federation of Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Associations, the total amount of the standard remuneration prescribed in Article 28 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "standard remuneration") at each Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Association (in the case of the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Employees, the total amount of the standard remuneration at all Mutual Aid Associations for Designated City Employees, Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Employees, and Mutual Aid Associations for City Employees).

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may request mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies to report, through the minister having jurisdiction over those mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies, on the number of insured persons relating to those mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies, and other matters specified by Ministerial Order.

Each of the mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies is to make the report under the preceding paragraph, as specified by Ministerial Order, through the minister having jurisdiction over it.

Mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies are to report to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as specified by Ministerial Order, through the minister having jurisdiction over them, on the matters specified by Ministerial Order as matters necessary for calculating the estimated amount prescribed in Article 94-2, paragraph (3).

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to report to the minister having jurisdiction over mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies, as specified by Ministerial Order, on the estimated amount prescribed in the preceding paragraph and other related matters specified by Ministerial Order.

When establishing a Ministerial Order prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must consult with the minister having jurisdiction over mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies.

Notwithstanding Article 87, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 88, paragraph (1), with respect to the insured period as a category 2 insured person and the insured period as a category 3 insured person, the government does not collect the premium, and the insured person is not required to pay the premium.

Premiums and other amounts to be collected under the provisions of this Act (excluding Chapter X; the same applies below in this Chapter through Chapter VIII), except as otherwise provided in this Act, are collected in accordance with the precedent for collection of national taxes.

When a National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association is dissolved, the government collects, from the dissolved National Pension Fund or National Pension Fund Association, the amount equivalent to the policy reserve calculated, as specified by Cabinet Order, with respect to the persons to whom the National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association is obligated to pay a pension as of the day of that dissolution; provided, however, that this does not apply where the National Pension Fund Association is to collect the amount from the dissolved National Pension Fund under Article 137-19, paragraph (1).

Where there is a person who is in arrears with a premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may demand payment of it, specifying a due date.

When intending to demand payment under the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare issues a demand letter to the person liable for payment.

The due date specified in the demand letter under the preceding paragraph must be a day on which 10 days or more have elapsed, counting from the day on which the demand letter is issued.

Where a person who has received a demand for payment under paragraph (1) fails to pay the premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act by the designated time limit, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may dispose of it in accordance with the precedent for disposition for national tax arrears, or may request the municipality of the place where the person in arrears resides or the place where the person's property is located to make that disposition.

When a municipality receives a request for disposition under the preceding paragraph, it may dispose of it in accordance with the precedent for municipal tax. In this case, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must grant to that municipality the amount equivalent to 4 percent of the amount to be collected.

Where the amount received through disposition under the preceding two paragraphs is applied to the premium, it is applied successively from the premium for the earliest elapsed month, and any fraction less than the amount of the premium for one month is delivered to the person liable for payment.

When a demand for payment is made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects a delinquency charge calculated by multiplying the amount collected by the rate of 14.6 percent per annum (or, for the period from the day following the due date for payment to the day on which three months have elapsed, where the demand for payment relates to a premium, 7.3 percent per annum), according to the number of days in the period from the day following the due date for payment to the day preceding the day of full payment of the amount collected or the day of seizure of property; provided, however, that this does not apply where the amount collected is less than 500 yen, or where there are found to be unavoidable circumstances relating to the arrears.

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, where payment is made of part of the amount to be collected, the amount to be collected that forms the basis for calculating the delinquency charge relating to the period on and after the day of that payment is based on the amount obtained by deducting the amount to be collected that was paid.

In calculating the delinquency charge, if there is a fraction of less than 500 yen in the amount collected, that fraction is rounded down.

The delinquency charge is not collected when the amount to be collected is paid in full by the due date designated in the demand letter, or when the amount calculated under the preceding three paragraphs is less than 50 yen.

If there is a fraction of less than 50 yen in the amount of the delinquency charge, that fraction is rounded down.

The order of priority of the statutory lien for premiums and other amounts to be collected under the provisions of this Act is next after national taxes and local taxes.

A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition concerning the status as an insured person, a disposition concerning a benefit (excluding a disposition concerning the examination of the degree of disability relating to the disability basic pension conducted by a mutual aid association, etc.), or a disposition concerning a premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act, may file a request for review with a Social Insurance Examiner, and a person who is dissatisfied with that decision may file a request for re-review with the Social Insurance Review Council; provided, however, that this does not apply to a decision under Article 14-4, paragraph (1) or (2).

When no decision is made within two months from the day on which the request for review was filed, the person who filed the request for review may deem the Social Insurance Examiner to have dismissed the request for review.

The request for review and the request for re-review under paragraph (1) are deemed to be a judicial claim, for the purposes of the postponement of the completion of prescription and the renewal of prescription.

When a disposition concerning the status as an insured person becomes final, dissatisfaction with that disposition may not be used as a ground for dissatisfaction with a disposition concerning a benefit based on that disposition.

With respect to the request for review and the request for re-review under paragraph (1), the provisions of Chapter II (excluding Article 22) and Chapter IV of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014) do not apply.

A person who is dissatisfied with a disposition concerning the examination of the degree of disability relating to the disability basic pension conducted by a mutual aid association, etc. may file a request for review with the reviewing body specified in the mutual aid Acts (meaning the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958), the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962), and the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act; the same applies below in this paragraph) relating to that mutual aid association, etc., as specified in those mutual aid Acts.

When a disposition concerning the examination of the degree of disability conducted by a mutual aid association, etc. under the preceding paragraph becomes final, dissatisfaction with that disposition may not be used as a ground for dissatisfaction with a disposition concerning the disability basic pension based on that disposition.

An action for rescission of a disposition prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (limited to a disposition concerning the status as an insured person, or a disposition concerning a benefit (excluding a disposition concerning the examination of the degree of disability relating to the disability basic pension conducted by a mutual aid association, etc.)) may not be filed unless a decision of the Social Insurance Examiner has been made on a request for review of that disposition.

The right to receive a pension benefit is extinguished by prescription when five years have passed from the day on which the ground for its payment arose, and the right to receive payment of the pension benefit that is to be paid for each payment month based on that right is extinguished by prescription when five years have passed from the first day of the month following the payment month prescribed in the main clause of Article 18, paragraph (3) relating to the payment of that pension benefit that falls on or after the month following the month that contains that day.

Prescription of the right to receive a pension benefit prescribed in the preceding paragraph does not run during the period in which payment of that pension benefit is suspended in its entirety.

The provisions of Article 31 of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive a pension benefit prescribed in paragraph (1), or the right to receive payment of the pension benefit that is to be paid for each payment month based on that right.

The right to collect a premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act, or to receive a refund of it, and the right to receive the death lump-sum payment, are extinguished by prescription when two years have passed from the time these rights can be exercised.

A demand for payment under Article 96, paragraph (1) with respect to a premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act has the effect of renewal of prescription.

The provisions of Article 32 of the Public Accounting Act do not apply to a premium or other amount to be collected under the provisions of this Act.