Nippon Life Insurance Company (日本生命保険相互会社), also known as Nissay (ニッセイ) or Nihon Seimei (日本生命) is the largest Japanese life insurance company by revenue.[1] The company was founded in 1889 as the Nippon Life Assurance Co., Inc. In structure it is a mutual company. It first paid policyholder dividends in 1898.[2][3]
Overview
Nippon Life employs 70,519 employees and has 70,608 billion yen in assets as of 2016.[4] The company is headquartered in Imabashi Sanchōme, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. It has a wholly owned subsidiary, Resolution Life, which operates in Southeast Asia and the United States.[1]
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References
- David Fox. Nippon Life takes over Bermudian reinsurer www.royalgazette.com, 2024-12-12, retrieved 2025-07-15^
- 2006 Annual Report, Chapter 4 Nippon Life Insurance Company, retrieved 2007-01-08^
- P.R. Sanjai, Deepti Bhaskaran. Nippon Life to pay Rs2,265 crore to raise stake in Reliance Life to 49%