Japan - Pension System Overview

 

• IOPS Country profile: Japan 2022 (pdf)

• Japan: Pension system in 2018 and Country specific findings (Pensions at a Glance 2019. OECD and G20 indicators)

• Japan Voluntary funded pension profile 2022 (ISSA/OECD/IOPS complementary and private pensions database)

 

Other resources

• Asia 2050 - Realising the Asian century, (ADB, May 2011)
• The Evolution of Japanese Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans, Rajnes, D. (2007)
• Japan's Pension Reform, (World Bank, 2005)
• Pension funds and retirement benefits in the depressed economy and market: Experience and challenges in Japan, Usuki, M. (2003)
• Pension Reform in Japan at the Turn of the Century, Takayama, N. (2001)
• Other papers on social security reform in Japan, Takayama

 

Key Regulatory and Supervisory Authority

• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, www.mhlw.go.jp
• Pension Fund Association of Japan, www.pfa.or.jp/english/

Selected Key Official Statistical References

• Bank of Japan, www.boj.or.jp
• OECD, Global Pension Statistics project, www.oecd.org/daf/pensions/gps