<Currently Active Committees> Economy Vitalization Committee Labor-Management Relations Committee Global Management Committee Transportation Policy Committee Energy and Environment Committee Information Economy & Society Promotion Committee Congressional Forum to Promote Better Management Vision and Ethics The Council for Promotion of Work-Life Balance Urban Policy Committee Management Innovation Committee <Past Committees> Employment Policy Committee Welfare Policy Committee 21st Century Health Committee Social Policy Committee Agricultural Policy Committee   Chairman: Naomi Maruo, Professor, Shobi University   The Welfare Policy Committee examines the current social security system in Japan and proposes reforms in response to an increasingly aging society with fewer children. It aims to formulate and implement a “grand design for welfare in the 21st century.” It conducts studies and offers proposals for medical systems including reviews of medical and nursing services, such as achieving a new balance of medical cost burdens and benefits, childcare assistance policies, and review of public pension schemes and corporate pension reforms. Based on these comprehensive social security reforms, the committee further engages in research for creating a new, age-free society. Major proposals and surveys/research presented thus far Report on Japan’s Upcoming Pension Reform (March 2004) Proposals for Child-Rearing Support Policies (November 2002) Proposal on Medical System Reforms (August 2002) Urgent Proposal Concerning Reforms of the Medical System (December 2001) Proposal on the Course of Pension Reforms (January 2000) Interim Report on Public Pension (August 1998)