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Press Releases and Related Information

• Applications Open for the 2024 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and 2024 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (August 21, 2023)
• Announcement of Organizations Selected under the 2023 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (March 8, 2023)
• 49 Enterprises Selected under the 2023 Health & Productivity Stock Selection (March 8, 2023)
• Grand Prix Winners of the Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2023 Selected (January 27, 2023)
• METI to Hold the 5th Well Aging Society Summit Asia-Japan (WASS) (September 20, 2022)
• Applications Open for the 2023 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and 2023 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (August 22, 2022)
• PHR Service Business Association (Tentative Name) to Be Established (June 20, 2022)
• Evaluation Sheets Published for 2,000 Enterprises Under the FY2021 Survey on Health and Productivity Management (March 15, 2022)
• Announcement of Organizations Selected under the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (March 9, 2022)
• Fifty Enterprises Selected under the 2022 Health & Productivity Stock Selection (March 9, 2022)
• Grand Prix Winners of the Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2022 Selected (January 26, 2022)
• Government Event Held at Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021: Workplace Health Investment as a Corporate Strategy - Potential of Health and Productivity Management (December 22, 2021)
• International Forum on the Super Aging Challenge Held (December 22, 2021)
• Workplace Health Investment as a Corporate Strategy - Potential of Health and Productivity Management - Event Hosted by the Japanese Government to be Held at Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021 (December 1, 2021)
• International Forum on the Super Aging Challenge to Be Held (September 6, 2021)
• Applications Open for the 2022 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and the 2022 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (August 30, 2021)
• Holding of Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2022 Decided (July 12, 2021)
• A New International Standard for Aseptic Processing of Health Care Products — Isolator Systems (June 8, 2021)
• Evaluation Summaries for the 2021 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (Large Enterprise Category [White 500]) Have Been Published (June 17, 2021)
• Evaluation Summaries for the 2021 Health & Productivity Stock Selection Program Published (May 10, 2021)
• Study Group for Encouraging Dialogue between Biotech Venture Businesses and Investors Compiles Guidebook on Information Disclosure (March 4, 2021)
• Announcement of Organizations Selected under the 2021 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (March 4, 2021)
• Forty-Eight Enterprises Selected under the 2021 Health & Productivity Stock Selection(March 4, 2021)
• Symposium to be Held as Part of the Project for Dissemination and Promotion of Safety Measures for Electric Wheelchairs and Other Apparatuses (February 25, 2021)
• Grand Prix Winners of the Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2021 Selected (February 1, 2021)
• Final Round of Presentations to be Held under the Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2021 Program (January 12, 2021)
• Final Round of Presentations to be Held under the Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2021 Program (November 24, 2020)
• The 3rd Well Aging Society Summit Asia-Japan Held (October 26, 2020)
• Comprehensive Report on Project for Preventing Severe Diabetic Nephropathy in Kobe City under the Social Impact Bond (October 9, 2020)
• Project for Dissemination and Promotion of Safety Measures for Electric Wheelchairs and Other Apparatuses to be Conducted (October 8, 2020)
• Call Opens for General People as Participants in the 3rd Well Aging Society Summit Asia-Japan (September 15, 2020)
• Event “Orange Ring Dressing-up” to be Held (September 14, 2020)
• The Nippon Kenko Kaigi Starts Acceptance of Applications for the 2021 Certified Health and Productivity Management Organization Recognition Program (SME category)(August 24, 2020)
• The FY2020 Survey on Health and Productivity Management to be Held for the 2021 Health & Productivity Stock Selection and the 2021 Certified Health & Productivity Management Organizations Recognition Program (Large Enterprise Category) (August 24, 2020)
• The 3rd Well Aging Society Summit Asia-Japan to be Held (August 24, 2020)
• Results of Call for Public Comments on Draft Guidelines and Final Guidelines compiled for Handling of Medical Information by Information Systems Providers (August 21, 2020)
• Convening of Japan Healthcare Business Contest (JHeC) 2021 Determined (August 3, 2020)
• Guidelines for Administrative Accounting of Investment in Health and Productivity Management Formulated (June 12, 2020)
• Businesses Determined to which METI Commissions “FY2020 Project for Enhancing Systems of Remote Heath Consultation Services under the Supplementary Budget” (May 1, 2020)
• Forty Enterprises Selected under the 2020 Health & Productivity Stock Selection Program (March 2, 2020)

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