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With Consumption Tax Hike in 2015, “Focus on Whether to Conduct Market Price Survey”: EAD Director Kamata
Speaking at a lecture following a regular assembly of Japan’s association of generic marketing companies (NJIHK) on June 8, Mitsuaki Kamata, director of the Health Policy Bureau’s (HPB) Economic Affairs Division (EAD), Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), touched…
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