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Licensed insurance companies in Japan (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the FSA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.

The 101 insurance companies licensed in Japan in 2026, as recorded by the Financial Services Agency (FSA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

101Licensed operators
41Life41% of entities46General (non-life)46% of entities33Cross-border groups67 domestically owned · 1 multilateral

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Domestic private44 44%
  • Foreign multinational33 33%
  • Mutual / cooperative21 21%
  • State-owned / parastatal2 2%
  • Regional / multilateral1 1%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Japan

Showing 25 of 101 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
AIG General InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAIGVerified
Aioi Nissay Dowa InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateMS&ADVerified
Allianz Fire and Marine Insurance JapanGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAllianzVerified
American Home Assurance (Japan)GGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAIGVerified
AXA General InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAXAVerified
AXA Life InsuranceLLifeForeign multinationalAXAVerified
Cardif Assurance Vie (Japan)LLifeForeign multinationalBNP ParibasVerified
Cardif Assurances Risques Divers (Japan)GGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalBNP ParibasVerified
Chubb Insurance JapanGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalChubbVerified
Credit Agricole Life Insurance JapanLLifeForeign multinationalCredit AgricoleVerified
Daiichi Frontier LifeLLifeDomestic privateDai-ichi LifeVerified
Daiichi ipet InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateDai-ichi LifeVerified
Daiichi Life InsuranceLLifeDomestic privateDai-ichi LifeVerified
Daiichi Neo LifeLLifeDomestic privateDai-ichi LifeVerified
E.design InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateTokio MarineVerified
Euler Hermes SA (Japan branch)XSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveForeign multinationalAllianzVerified
FWD Life Insurance Co (Japan)LLifeForeign multinationalFWD GroupVerified
General Reinsurance AG (Japan branch)RReinsurerForeign multinationalBerkshire HathawayVerified
Gibraltar LifeLLifeForeign multinationalPrudential FinancialVerified
HDI Global SE (Japan branch)GGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalTalanxVerified
Manulife Life InsuranceLLifeForeign multinationalManulifeVerified
Medicare LifeLLifeMutual / cooperativeSumitomo LifeVerified
MetLife Insurance K.K.LLifeForeign multinationalMetLifeVerified
Mitsui Direct GeneralGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateMS&ADVerified
Mitsui Sumitomo Aioi LifeLLifeDomestic privateMS&ADVerified

Full table for Japan ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Japan

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Regime
Insurance Business Act; ESR from 2025
Register source
FSA exports supplied by user: life (41, 1 Apr 2026), domestic non-life (35 + 2 reinsurers, 1 Apr 2026), foreign non-life branches (22, 30 Apr 2025), insurance holding companies (15, 1 Jun 2026)
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · FSA exports supplied by user: life (41, 1 Apr 2026), domestic non-life (35 + 2 reinsurers, 1 Apr 2026), foreign non-life branches (22, 30 Apr 2025), insurance holding companies (15, 1 Jun 2026)

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Insurance Business Act · Institutional and insurance framework

    FSA supervision aims to protect policyholders through sound operations and fair insurance solicitation. Its comprehensive supervisory guidelines explain how the act is applied.

Verification log

Added Fukokushinrai, Meiji Yasuda Trust Life, NN Life, Capital Insurance, H.S., Anicom, au, Daiichi ipet, Pet & Family, Rescue, Sakura, Zenkankyo Reiwa, NTT Docomo, Yamap, Daido Fire; removed Zurich Insurance Japan (branch, not licensed company), Allianz Life Japan (exited); 22 foreign branches now itemised (P&I clubs, reinsurers, trade-credit insurers); holding companies (Tokio Marine, MS&AD, Sompo, T&D, Dai-ichi Life Group, Sony FG, SBI, Rakuten, Anicom, au FH, AXA, AIG, Aflac, Prudential, NTT Docomo) are parents not insurers and are reflected in the Parent/Group column

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/japan.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/japan/insurers/pages/1.json
  • MCP: connect https://insurers.global/mcp and call get_country_summary with { "country": "japan" }, or list_insurers with country, limit and offset for paged rows.
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  • Dataset version 2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carries version, verified and licence.