Fonds/Series
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Hierarchy
- Title
- Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Date
- 1893-1996
- Level of Description
- fonds
- Extent
- ２４，６０７件||24,607 items
- Creator
- Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Administrative / Biographical History
- In 1938, the Ministry of Health and Welfare was organized with five bureaus: Sanitation Bureau, Social Bureau, Preventive Health Bureau, Physical Strength Bureau and Labour Bureau as well as one external bureau, the Insurance Institute, as an institution which integrated all the "social administration" such as sanitation and labour/welfare/social insurance administrations developed by the Ministry of the Interior Health Bureau and Social Bureau. The labour administration was then transferred to the newly established the Ministry of Labour in 1947. The Ministry of Health and Welfare was reorganized into the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2001.
- Source of Transfer or Acquisition
- Transferred from the Ministry of Health and Welfare chronologically from 1972
- Scope and Content
- Records transferred from the Ministry of Health and Welfare consist of those classified by the Minister's Secretariat as records and those stored at the Social Insurance Agency.
- Publication Note
- Ministry of Health and Welfare 50 Years' History Compilation Committee ed., "Ministry of Health and Welfare 50 Years' History," Health and Welfare Issues Research Committee, 1988
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/547476
[Fonds/Series] "Ministry of Health and Welfare", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/547476（accessed 2026-05-10）
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