{{Short description|Japanese life insurance company}} {{Redirect-distinguish | Nissay | Nissan|Nissei (disambiguation){{!}}Nissei|Nissae|Nisse (disambiguation){{!}}Nisse}}{{Expand language|topic=|langcode=ja|otherarticle=日本生命保険|date=July 2025}} {{No reliable sources|date=July 2025}} {{Nihongo|'''Nippon Life Insurance Company'''|日本生命保険相互会社|Nihon Seimei Hoken Sōgo-gaisha}}, also known as {{Nihongo|'''Nissay'''|ニッセイ|Nissei}} or {{Nihongo|'''Nihon Seimei'''|日本生命|}} is the largest Japanese life insurance company by revenue.<ref name="fox">{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=David |date=2024-12-12 |title=Nippon Life takes over Bermudian reinsurer |url=https://www.royalgazette.com/reinsurance/business/article/20241212/nippon-life-takes-over-bermuda-reinsurer/ |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=www.royalgazette.com |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title = 2006 Annual Report, Chapter 4 | publisher = Nippon Life Insurance Company | url = https://www.nissay.co.jp/english/annual/pdf/ar2006.pdf | access-date = 2007-01-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Sanjai|first1=P.R.|last2=Bhaskaran|first2=Deepti|title=Nippon Life to pay Rs2,265 crore to raise stake in Reliance Life to 49%|url=http://www.livemint.com/Companies/1FucZOG5iYA5uPpPpjtaeP/Nippon-Life-to-pay-Rs2265-crore-to-raise-stake-in-Reliance.html|access-date=26 June 2016|publisher=Live Mint|date=December 2, 2015}}</ref>
==Overview== Nippon Life employs 70,519 employees and has 70,608 billion yen in assets as of 2016.<ref name=2016AnnualReport>{{cite web|title=2016 Nissay Annual Report|url=https://www.nissay.co.jp/english/annual/pdf/ar2016.pdf}}</ref> 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.<ref name="fox" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Companies}} *[http://www.nissay.co.jp/ Company website] {{inlang|ja}} *[http://www.nissay.co.jp/english/ Company website]
{{Major insurance companies}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Nippon Life Category:Insurance companies of Japan Category:Mutual insurance companies Category:Companies based in Osaka Prefecture Category:Financial services companies established in 1889 Category:1889 establishments in Japan Category:Japanese brands Category:Chūō-ku, Osaka
{{insurance-company-stub}} {{japan-company-stub}}