The ministry sets prices for procedures and drugs.
The ministry sets currency policy, and the B.O.J. conducts currency intervention on the ministry's behalf.
The emergencies' ministry set up a hotline and dispatched psychologists to the airport to help those affected by the tragedy.
To back up its claims, the ministry set up a live video feed of radiation readings from one of its monitoring devices on its Web site.
Following an internationally recognized formula, the ministry set the poverty line at about $22,000 a year for a family of four, half of Japan's median household income.
"The health ministry set goals and deadlines, for example, 150 or 200 people must be sterilised over a weekend in order the reach the targets," he said.
And indeed after the war, the American-appointed civil administration in Baghdad and the Iraqi oil ministry set an aggressive schedule for resuming exports.
On a blustery morning last month, officials from Odesypano, an agency attached to the agriculture ministry, set up an easel on an empty rural road south of Beja, north-west Tunisia.
He plans to go back during spring break, a trip that would include spending time at the orphanage his father's ministry set up. "We go into medical clinics, hospitals, prisons, marketplaces and schools," Tebow said.
The Sri Lankan health ministry set up mobile clinics near the camps, as well as at airports and ferry landings where migrants arrived, offering diagnosis and treatment to all.
