Health Checkup
In this era of 80-year lifespans, managing daily life is one of the keys to maintaining a youthful mind and body over the long time. Complete checkups and preventive health screenings for lifestyle released diseases, which include many tests and examinations not covered in regular health screenings, offer you an important opportunity to have your body thoroughly examined and to secure a true treasure—'good health.'
The Health Insurance Society provides various health checkups and subsidies for insured members and their dependents aged 30 or older.
People in their 30s often reach a turning point in their health. As responsibilities increase both at home and at work, you are encouraged to receive regular health checkups.
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- The medical checkups available in FY2025 are as follows:
- Subsidy application period: March 14, 2025 (Fri) - December 31, 2025 (Wed)
- Medical checkup period: April 1, 2025 (Tue) - March 31, 2026 (Tue)
- The medical checkups available in FY2025 are as follows:
Types of Medical Checkups
Each insured member is eligible to undergo any of the following medical checkups once per fiscal year:
Complete Medical Checkup
- Eligibility: Insured members and their dependents aged 30 or older.
Please note that examinees aged 35 or older can undergo the checkup once per fiscal year, while examinees aged 30 to 34 can undergo the checkup once during the period from age 30 to 34. - Examinees are eligible for a subsidy of up to 35,000 yen.
However, insured members whose offices do not offer the “mobile lifestyle-related disease health screening” may receive a subsidy of up to 45,000 yen upon applying through their office. - Insured members who have already received the “mobile lifestyle-related disease health screening” at their workplace are not eligible to undergo the complete medical checkup.
- Dependents who have already received the “mobile health screening for housewives (women)” are not eligible to undergo the complete medical checkup.
*In principle, the complete medical checkups must include all the examination items as shown in the 'examination item list' below in order to qualify for the subsidy.
Mobile lifestyle-related disease health screening (examination items are equivalent to those of the complete medical checkups)
Insured members can undergo examinations at their workplace.
- Eligibility: Insured members aged 35 or older
- Screening costs are fully covered by the Health Insurance Society.
Mobile health screening for housewives (women) (examination items are equivalent to those of the complete medical checkups + gynecological exams)
Around late April each year, documents will be sent to each examinee’s home to encourage participation.
- Eligibility: Female dependents aged 30 or older
- Screening costs are fully covered by the Health Insurance Society.
Mobile dental checkups
Mobile dental check-ups are offered alongside regular health screenings (May-July).
- Eligibility: All insured members
- Checkup costs will be fully covered by the Health Insurance Society.
Stand-alone examinations (Examinees can take these examinations independently of or in conjunction with the items listed above.)
Brain health checkup
- Eligibility: Insured members and their dependents aged 30 or older
Please note that examinees aged 35 or older can undergo the checkup once every two years, while examinees aged 30 to 34 can undergo the checkup only once during the period of age 30 to 34. - Examinees are eligible for a subsidy of up to 25,000 yen.
- * Checkups using MRI or MRA are eligible for the subsidy.
Gynecological exams (cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening)
- Eligibility: Insured members and their dependents aged 30 or older
- Examinees are eligible for a subsidy of up to 6,000 (for cervical cancer screening).
- Examinees are eligible for a subsidy of up to 6,000 yen (for breast cancer screening).
- Dependents who have already received the “mobile health screening for housewives (women)” are not eligible to undergo the gynecological exams.
Examination item list
Examinations offered by the Health Insurance Society include the items intended to discover and treat diseases at the early stage, as well as to reduce patients and potential patients of lifestyle-related diseases (disease prevention).
| Types of health screening | Scope of examinations |
|---|---|
| Complete check-up/mobile lifestyle-related disease health screening | Medical interview, physical measurement, abdominal circumference, blood pressure measurement, pulmonary function, electrocardiogram, fundus examination, indirect chest X-ray, indirect upper gastrointestinal X-ray, fecal occult blood, abdominal ultrasonography, and blood testing (liver function, blood lipids, blood sugar, anemia, kidney function, rheumatism, syphilis serum reaction), urinalysis |
| Gynecological exams | Breast cancer screening (palpation + ultrasonography or mammography) and uterine cancer screening (cytotechnology) |
| Brain checkup | Medical examination, simple audiometry, precision fundus examination (both eyes), equilibrium function, MRI (24S), image analysis judgment |
List of contracted medical care institutions
List of contracted health screening institutions (Japanese version only)