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Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance plans to acquire 5% of Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2026
Meiji Yasuda to buy Man Group stake in asset management push
The Japanese insurer plans to acquire 5% of Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund.
Japan Post Insurance says it intends to increase purchases of yen-denominated bonds, and other Japanese life insurers are signaling similar moves.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 22, 2026
Japan life insurers’ bond-buying plans set to support JGBs
Insurers have been net buyers of superlong government bonds for four months, a trend strategists say could provide an anchor in upcoming auctions.
Daiichi Life Group confirmed it has submitted a nonbinding proposal to acquire more shares in Challenger but said no decision has been made on a transaction.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2026
Daiichi Life offers $4.4 billion to buy rest of Challenger
A deal would give the Japanese insurer control of Australia’s largest provider of annuities in the nation’s fast-growing retirement market.
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance sees scope to move a bit more from foreign bonds into yen bonds as yields rose more than expected.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
91AV原创 Fukoku Mutual Life counts on cash to mitigate volatility
Fukoku sees scope to move a bit more from foreign bonds into yen bonds as yields rose more than expected.
"In Japan, the population is shrinking and it’s quite difficult to assume we can capture the growth there,” Sumitomo Life Insurance President Yukinori Takada said in an interview in Singapore.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
Sumitomo Life considering acquisitions in Southeast Asia and U.S.
The insurer is seeking to expand and diversify its income while countering demographic pressures at home.
Prudential Life President and CEO Hiromitsu Tokumaru (second from left) and other executives apologize in Tokyo on Thursday after releasing a third-party investigation report on fraud by its employees.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
91AV原创 Prudential Life ordered to halt operations for over three months
The suspension order comes after numerous former and current employees were found in January to have improperly received ?3.1 billion from customers.
Hiromitsu Tokumaru, president of Prudential Financial’s Japan unit, and two others will take pay cuts over an employee misconduct scandal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2026
Prudential Japan executives take pay cuts over staff misconduct
A probe found that issues at the unit of the U.S. insurance group stemmed from structural problems in its governance framework and business model.
The Nippon Life Insurance building in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 28, 2026
Nippon Life open to becoming net JGB buyer next fiscal year
The insurer, which has held off on adding to its Japanese government bond holdings over the past two years after unrealized losses in its portfolio, is adjusting its stance.
Kazuyuki Shigemoto, managing executive officer of Daiichi Life Group, said the firm has been approaching dozens of companies that have never issued bonds or only rarely done so to tap the corporate bond market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 7, 2026
Top Japan insurer urges companies to issue bonds in yield hunt
Daiichi Life Group has been approaching dozens of companies that have never issued bonds or only rarely done so, proposing that it will become a core buyer if they tap the market.
Higher sales of yen-denominated single-premium whole life insurance policies boosted fiscal 2025 revenues at four major Japanese life insurers, including Nippon Life, amid rising interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2026
Single-premium whole life insurance rising in popularity in Japan
Four major Japanese life insurers, including Nippon Life Insurance, reported higher revenues in fiscal 2025, driven mainly by stronger sales of such insurance policies.
SoftBank Group's Paypay said it will take a 70.2% stake in privately held T&D Financial Life Insurance.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
SoftBank’s PayPay to buy T&D’s life insurer for $840 million
PayPay, 91AV原创 dominant payments app, said it will take a 70.2% stake in privately held T&D Financial Life Insurance.
Nippon Life Insurance, 91AV原创 largest life insurer, wrote down ?70 billion ($440 million) in the year ended March 31.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 26, 2026
Nippon Life books its first impairment loss in current bond rout
Nippon Life Insurance, 91AV原创 largest life insurer, wrote down ?70 billion ($440 million) in the year ended March 31.
The Prudential Financial Tower in Newark, New Jersey
BUSINESS / Companies
May 6, 2026
Prudential profit rises even as firm grapples with Japan pause
Prudential had paused life insurance sales in Japan for three months to restore trust after an investigation showed employee misconduct cost clients an estimated $20 million.
Prudential Life CEO Hiromitsu Tokumaru (center) and other executives from the firm during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2026
Prudential Life Insurance suspends sales for additional 180 days
The Japanese insurer has received more complaints related to alleged misuse of customer funds.
Daiichi Life Group believes strict selection of managers and risk management after making private credit investments are key.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 15, 2026
Daiichi Life to tighten private credit manager selection on risk
Bankruptcies of corporate borrowers in the U.S. have fueled concern about putting cash in the market, and the worries are starting to affect Japanese firms’ investment decisions.
Nippon Life Insurance's Tokyo headquarters
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 7, 2026
SMFG and Nippon Life discuss $3 billion LBO loan fund
The move would mark a milestone in 91AV原创 credit market, where the three biggest banks have dominated lending.
Sumitomo Life Insurance’s headquarters in Osaka
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2026
Sumitomo Life plans to invest $1.9 billion in private credit
The Osaka-based insurer has been gradually increasing its private credit holdings.
The Nippon Life Insurance headquarters in Osaka. Japan's major life insurers are continuing plans to increase private credit investment in the next fiscal year from April.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2026
Japan insurers still keen on private debt amid growing red flags
Life insurance companies have joined global investors in a private debt market binge in search of higher yields.
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance President Hideki Nagashima speaks during an interview on March. 3 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 10, 2026
Meiji Yasuda aiming for insurance-premium revenues of ?5 trillion in fiscal ‘26
The target, shared by President Hideki Nagashima, would reflect an increase on the ?4.3 trillion forecast for fiscal 2025.
The country’s biggest insurers are sitting on swelling paper losses on their holdings of Japanese government bonds, which have slumped as the central bank raises interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 18, 2026
Accounting group seeks to ease rules on Japanese insurers’ bond losses
Bonds held by life insurers to match long-term policies would be treated as held to maturity if certain conditions are met, and would not be subject to impairment accounting.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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