Table 1.

Employee categories in the Employee Questionnaire of the Hospital Report, governmental licensing, and number of personnel in each category (calculated from the Employee Questionnaire, Clinic Questionnaire, and Dental Clinic Questionnaire of the Static Survey of Medical Institutions) as of October 1, 2014.

	Category	License1	Number2
1.	Doctor	National	340,964
2.	Dentist	National	108,465
3.	Pharmacist	National	51,999
4.	Public health nurse	National	12,257
5.	Midwife	National	29,072
6.	Nurse	National	878,933
7.	Assistant nurse	Prefectural	222,491
8.	Nurse assistant	No	218,873
9.	Physical therapist	National	77,140
10.	Occupational therapist	National	42,136
11.	Orthoptist	National	7,733
12.	Speech-language-hearing therapist	National	14,252
13.	Artificial limb fitter	National	104
14.	Dental hygienist	National	107,924
15.	Dental technician	National	11,445
16.	Clinical radiology technician	National	50,960
17.	Clinical X-ray technician	Repealed3	1,355
18.	Clinical laboratory technician	National	64,080
19.	Hygienic laboratory technician	Repealed4	330
20.	Clinical engineer	National	23,741
21.	Masseur	National	4,594
22.	Judo therapist	National	4,172
23.	Registered dietitian nutritionist	National	25,233
24.	Nutritionist	National	6,854
25.	Psychiatric social worker	National	10,505
26.	Certified social worker	National	10,582
27.	Certified care worker	National	57,773
28.	Other technician	No	23,581
29.	Welfare worker	No	10,619
30.	Clerical worker	No	418,006
31.	Others (janitor, driver, etc.)	No	131,958

¹Licenses for medical professions administered by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or prefectural governments.

² Equivalent to full-time employees.

³ in 1983.

⁴ in 2011.