Social Insurance Agency staffer falsified pension premiums

Social Insurance Agency staffer falsified pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) addresses a meeting of Cabinet ministers on national pension issues on Sept. 9, where the Social Insurance Agency acknowledged that one of its staffers had instructed companies to falsify employees' monthly incomes used as a benchmark to calculate pension premiums.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001129751
  • Registered date
  • 2008/9/09 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2008 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1380 × 1303 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 364.38(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Parties involved in AIJ scandal

    Parties involved in AIJ scandal

    TOKYO, Japan - In Tokyo on March 27, 2012, (from L to R) Kazuhiko Asakawa, president of AIJ Investment Advisors Co., Hideaki Nishimura, president of ITM Securities Co. which is effectively under AIJ's control, and Isao Ishiyama, a retiree of the now-defunct Social Insurance Agency who currently operates a pension fund consultancy, sit at a session of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs which addressed AIJ's loss of assets it had been managing on behalf of pension funds. They were three of the five witnesses to testify at the lower house's committee.
      Cabinet meeting

      Cabinet meeting

      TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C), Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (L) and transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) wait for a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2010.
        New pension service body begins operations

        New pension service body begins operations

        TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma addresses an inaugural ceremony for Japan Pension Service in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Jan. 4, 2010. Japan Pension Service began full operations the same day to succeed the Social Insurance Agency, which was shut down at the end of last month after a pension records mishandling scandal.
          New pension service body begins operations

          New pension service body begins operations

          TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kiriku (standing R), head of Japan Pension Service, addresses an inaugural ceremony of the organization in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Jan. 4, 2010. Japan Pension Service began full operations the same day to succeed the Social Insurance Agency, which was shut down at the end of last month after a pension records mishandling scandal.
            New pension service body begins operations

            New pension service body begins operations

            TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma (R) and Takashi Kiriku, head of Japan Pension Service, shake hands after an inaugural ceremony for the organization in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Jan. 3, 2010. Japan Pension Service began full operations the same day to succeed the Social Insurance Agency, which was shut down at the end of last month after a pension records mishandling scandal.
              Hatoyama, labor and biz leaders discuss employment issues

              Hatoyama, labor and biz leaders discuss employment issues

              TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) speaks at a meeting on employment issues attended by Cabinet ministers, and labor and business leaders at the prime minister's office on Dec. 24, 2009. Hatoyama stressed the importance of formulating growth strategies to help improve the bleak employment situation.
                Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister in waiting, arrives at a Tokyo hotel to attend a meeting with other lawmakers of his Democratic Party of Japan on Sept. 15, 2009. Hatoyama is gearing up to launch his Cabinet after he is elected as prime minister on Sept. 16.
                  Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                  Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                  TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister in waiting, addresses a meeting with other lawmakers of his Democratic Party of Japan at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 15, 2009. Hatoyama is gearing up to launch his Cabinet after he is elected as prime minister on Sept. 16.
                    Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                    Hatoyama at DPJ legislators' meeting

                    TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister in waiting, addresses a meeting with other lawmakers of his Democratic Party of Japan at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 15, 2009. Hatoyama is gearing up to launch his Cabinet after he is elected as prime minister on Sept. 16.
                      Pension agency begins sending notices to pension plan members

                      Pension agency begins sending notices to pension plan members

                      TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows envelopes to contain annual notices that Japan's public pension scheme operator, the Social Insurance Agency, will send to pension plan members. The agency began on April 3 sending the notices to inform members of their pension records and the amount of pension benefits they can expect in the future. Those whose pension records are highly likely to be incorrect will receive an orange envelope (R) and need to carefully check the data.