The was an agency administered by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. After a scandal involving millions of lost pension records, on January 1, 2010, it was abolished and replaced by the Japan Pension Service.Japan Pension Service website English information Retrieved on November 24th 2010
It was responsible for four types of social insurance:
Employees’ Health Insurance Seamens' Insurance Employees’ Pension Insurance The National Pension.Social Insurance Agency website Agency Structure Retrieved on November 23rd 2010
Pension records problem The Social Insurance Agency computerized their records in 1979The Japan Times website Bloated bureaucracy exposed Retrieved November 24th 2010 and in 1997 the SIA attempted to integrate three different databases together.The Japan Times website Special panel to investigate pension fiasco Retrieved November 24th 2010 Numerous problems resulted from this and in May 2007 it was exposed by the then-opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan that 50 million pre-1997 premium payers could not be matched to any citizen enrolled in the system.The Japan Times website Poll-wary ruling bloc gropes to fix pension fiasco Retrieved November 24th 2010 The then-ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, subsequently suffered a loss in the 2007 election, which was partly attributed to the pension scandal.The Japan Times website Ruling coalition suffers huge defeat Retrieved November 24th 2010
By January 2010, 14 million of these 50 million records had been consolidated with an existing pension number.International Social Security Association website Establishment of the “Japan Pension Service” Retrieved on November 24th 2010
References
External links Official website (English) Official website (Japanese)