# Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省)

> Citation bundle for Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省) on The Treatment Registry.
> URL: https://thetreatmentregistry.com/regulatory-bodies/japan-ministry-of-health-labour-and-welfare
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- Country: japan
- Type: ministry
- Official register / verification URL: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/index.html

## Description

Japan's national ministry responsible for health, medical and welfare policy. It issues and administers the national medical and dental licences and sets national medical-care policy; physicians and dentists are licensed at ministry level rather than through a separate professional council. Its official physician-search service (licenseif.mhlw.go.jp) is a non-UTF-8 (Windows-31J / Shift-JIS) frameset that is not reliably machine-readable, so no practitioner lookup URL is provided here.

## Scope

Ministry-level regulation of medicine and dentistry in Japan, including national licensing of physicians and dentists and administration of the Medical Care Act; individual medical-facility licensing is carried out by prefectural governors under that Act.

## Sources

- [Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省) — official register](https://www.mhlw.go.jp/index.html)