JAPAN LABOR BULLETIN
ISSUED BY THE JAPAN INSTITUTE OF LABOUR
Vol.38-No.11 November 1999
CONTENTS
Working Conditions and the Labor Market Human Resources Management Public Policy
  • New Standards for Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance for Mental Disorders and Work-related Suicides
Special Topic
  • The Silence of Stockholders: Japanese Labor Law from the Viewpoint of Corporate Governance

JIL News and Information

Statistical Aspects

New Minister of Labour

photo    On October 5, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi formed his second Cabinet, a tripartite coalition government formed by his own Liberal Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and New Komeito. Takamori Makino (LDP) was appointed Minister of Labour. Born in 1926, Mr. Makino is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University. As a bureaucrat of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), he has held posts as the First Secretary at the Japanese embassy in Germany and as a Director-General of Osaka's Bureau of International Trade and Industry. Since becoming a member of the Lower House in 1979 he has been chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Health and Welfare Committee, and the Cabinet Committee, including a period as the Deputy Chief of the Cabinet Secretary.


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