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Market Research Report
Japanese Insurance Industry
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Japanese Insurance Industry published by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. in March, 2008. This report consists of Pages: 60 and the price starts from US $ 1995.
Abstract
The Japanese Insurance Industry Report provides insightful analysis, market
overview, industry structure and outlook of life and non-life/ general
insurance industries in the region. Richly laden with quantitative analysis,
the report provides the reader with a rudimentary preface to the Japanese
insurance industry. A synopsized discussion offers preludes to reinsurance and
other insurance markets within the non-life insurance sector, such as health,
automobile, property, fire, accident, catastrophe and pet insurance. The
closely summarized Japanese market report is designed to offer a broad, macro
level picture of trends, regulatory/legislative environment, insurance
associations; and recent mergers & acquisitions, and strategic corporate
developments witnessed by the industry. Also provided is a compilation of
recent past/ historical perspective of the country' s insurance market,
corporate developments, and market facts & figures of the industry. The report
examines the leading companies' footing in insurance markets at regional level,
along with their annual written premiums and/ or market shares. Regional key
and niche players briefly discussed and abstracted in the report include Asahi
Mutual Life Insurance, Dai -ichi Mutual Life Insurance, Meiji Yasuda Life
Insurance, Millea Holdings, Inc., Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co.,
Ltd., Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Ltd., Nippon Life Insurance Co.,
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., and Sumitomo Life Insurance.
Table of Contents
1. Industry Review
- Japan - A Leading Insurance Market Worldwide
- Table 1: Japanese Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for Insurance
Industry by Segment - Life and Non- Life Markets Independently Analyzed with
Annual Premiums in US$ Billion for Fiscal Years 2005 through 2010 (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 2: Japanese 6-Year Perspective for Insurance Industry by Segment -
Percentage Breakdown of Premiums for Life and Non-Life Markets for 2005, 2008,
and 2010 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 3: Japanese Insurance Industry (2006): Per Capita Premium in US$,
and Penetration of Insurance by Category - Life and Non-Life
- Japanese Insurance Industry - An Overview
- Non-Payment Issues Hit the Japanese Life Insurance Industry
- Foreigners Reign...
- IT Spend - An Ascent to Efficiency
- Table 4: Japanese Insurance Industry (2005-2010): Total Insurance IT
Expenditure in US$ Billion For Life and Non- Life Insurance (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Amendments to IBL: A Review
- De Mutualizing of Insurance Companies: Demoralizing Consumer Interests?
- Japanese Insurance Industry: Developments in the Recent Past
- Japan' s Favoritism to Kampo Met with Hot Opposition
- Sluggish Japanese Economy Lags Growth in the Insurance Market - A Late
90' s Scenario
- Deregulation of the Insurance Industry: Flagged off in the Year 1996
- Deregulation Shakes Up the Laxity in the Market
2. Japan' s Insurance Sector: A Mid 90' s Review
- Slow Claims Paying Method: Performance Restraint of the 90' s
- Leading Japanese Insurers Worldwide - Mid 90s (Assets in Y Billion)
- Japan in Comparison with Other Leaders (Based on General Premium Income)
- Japanese Non-Bank Financial Firms Among the 1,000 Largest Companies
Worldwide
- Estimated Problem Loans of Japanese Financial } Institutions: Mid-90s (Y
Trillion)
- Table 5: Problem Loans for Japanese Financial Institutions - A Mid 90' s
Scenario (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
3. Review of Major Insurance Sectors
3a. Life Insurance
- Recovery: Hope or Hype?
- Challenges Facing Japanese Life Insurance Sector
- Foreign Players Eye the Takeover of Domestic Life Insurers...
- Deregulation Shakes the Market Lull
- Table 6: Japanese Life Insurance Market (FY2005- FY2007E): Percentage
Breakdown of Total Premium Income by Category for Individual Insurance,
Individual Annuity, Group Insurance, Group Annuity, and Others (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 7: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (FY2000- FY2006): Total Assets
By Value in Y Billion (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 8: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (FY2005 & FY2006): Total
Business in Force (In Y Billion) by Individual Insurance, Individual Annuity,
Group Insurance, and Group Annuity (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 9: Japanese Business in Force Life Insurance Market (2004):
Percentage Breakdown of Insurance Policy Types By Number and Value for Whole
Life, Whole Life-with-Term, Adjustable Interest Rate Funding Whole Life, Term,
Endowment, Endowment- with-Term, Variable, and Others (includes corresponding
Graph/Chart)
- Table 10: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (2000 - 2004 Historic
Data):Total New Business (In Y Billion) By Individual Insurance, Individual
Annuity, and Group Insurance (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 11: Japanese New Business Life Insurance Market (2004): Percentage
Breakdown of Insurance Policy Types By Number and Value for Whole Life, Whole
Life-with-Term, Adjustable Interest Rate Funding Whole Life, Term, Endowment,
Endowment-with- Term, Variable, and Others (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 12: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (FY2005 & FY2006): Total
Payments in Y Billion by Benefits, Annuity, Repayments, and Others (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 13: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (2001-2004): Total Payments in
Y Billion By Benefits, Annuity, Repayments, and Others (includes corresponding
Graph/Chart)
- Structure of the Life Insurance Industry
- 2002-2003: Market Leaders
- Table 14: Japanese Life Insurance Industry (2003): Gross Written Premium
in US$ Billion by Leading Companies for Nippon, Dai-ichi, Meiji Yasuda,
Sumitomo, ALICO Japan, Daido, Mitsui, American Family, Taiyo, and Fukoku
(includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 15: Top-Five Players in the Japanese Life Insurance Market (2002) -
Gross Written Premiums in US$ Million for Nippon, Dai-Ichi, Sumitomo, Meiji,
and Yasuda (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
3b. Health Insurance
- Personal Health Insurance is the Mainstay...
- Medical Insurance - A Sunrise Opportunity?
- Medical Expenditure: Spiraling Up...
- Medical Expenditures in Japan: 2000 - 2025
- Table 16: Health Insurance Market Size in Japan (*): 2000 & 2005 (Y
Trillion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- High-Risk Medicare Boosts Private Medical Insurance
- Table 17: Rising Popularity of Disease Specific Riders in Japan
(2003-2004) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
3c. General/Non-Life Insurance
- Market Overview
- Table 18: Japanese General Insurance Industry (FY2005- FY2007E):
Percentage Breakdown of Direct Premiums by Category for Automobile
(Voluntary), Fire, Personal Accident, Automobile (Compulsory), and
Miscellaneous (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 19: Japanese General Insurance Industry (FY2005- FY2007E):
Percentage Breakdown of Net Premiums by Category for Automobile (Voluntary),
Automobile (Compulsory), Fire, Personal Accident, and Miscellaneous (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 20: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Companies - Key Statistics
(FY2005)
- Table 21: Japanese Market for General/Non-Life Insurance (2005): Direct
Claims in Billion Yen, and Percentage Breakdown by Business Segment -
Compulsory Automobile Liability, Fire, Marine & Inland Transit, Personal
Accident, Voluntary Automobile, and Miscellaneous Casualty (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 22: Japanese Market for General/Non-Life Insurance (2004):
Percentage Value Breakdown of Net Premium by Segment - Auto (Compulsory,
Voluntary), Fire, Miscellaneous Casualty, Personal Accident and Marine &
Inland Transit (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Tokio Leads the Pack
- Table 23: Leading Players in Japanese Non-Life Insurance Market (2004):
Percentage Market Share by Company - Aioi Insurance, Fuji Fire & Marine,
Kyoei, Mitsui Sumitomo, Nipponkoa, Nissay Dowa, Nisshin Fire & Marine,
Sompo Japan, Tokio Marine Nichido, and Others(includes corresponding
Graph/Chart)
- Table 24: Japanese Non-Life Insurance Industry (2003): Gross Written
Premium in US$ Billion by Leading Companies for Tokio, Mitsui Sumitomo, Sompo
Japan, Aioi, Nippon Koa, Nichido, Nissay Dowa, Fuji, AIU, and Kyoei (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Classification of Foreign Non-Life Insurance Firms
- Investment Framework
- Distribution
- Table 25: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market (2005): Percentage
Breakdown of Direct Premium Generation by Distribution Channel - Agents,
Brokers, and Direct Distribution(includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 26: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Total Direct
Premiums Collected by Distribution Channel (2001-2002) in Million Yen
- Automobile Insurance in Japan
- Property Insurance
- Fire Insurance
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Catastrophe Insurance
- Disaster Claims: Running Heavy on the Industry...
- Table 27: Catastrophe Insurance Market in Japan: Disaster Claims Paid in
Million Yen for 2005
- Earthquake Insurance
- Table 28: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Claims Paid under
Earthquake Insurance on Dwelling Risks (In Billion Yen) (includes
corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Division of Earthquake Insurance...
- Residential Risks
- Industrial risks
- Effect of Kobe Earthquake...
- Other Insurance Sectors
- "Third Sector" in Japan
- Savings Type Insurance Market
3d. Pet Insurance
3e. Reinsurance
- Table 29: Japanese Reinsurance Industry: Leading Catastrophic Losses
Caused by Floods or Windstorm During 1955-2004 By Number of Casualties and
Property Damaged (In Million) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 30: Japanese Reinsurance Market: Top Ten Earthquake Losses During
1955-2004 By Number of Casualties and Property Damaged (includes corresponding
Graph/Chart)
- Table 31: Japanese Reinsurance Market: Leading Disasters by Total Claims
Paid in Y Billion for Fire, Automobile, and Marine Sectors (1990-2004)
(includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 32: Japanese Reinsurance Market: Leading Earthquakes by Total Claims
Paid in Y Billion (1990-2004) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
4. Facts & Figures - A Snapshot of the Japanese Insurance Industry in Recent Past
- Table 33: Top-Five Players in the Japanese Non-Life Insurance Market
(2002) - Gross Written Premiums in US$ Million for Tokio Marine, Sompo Japan,
Mitsui Sumitomo, NipponKoa, and Aioi (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 34: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Companies - Key Statistics
(2002)
- Table 35: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Net Premiums by
Category (2001-2002) in Million Yen (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 36: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Total Direct
Premiums of Foreign General Insurance Firms by Category (2001-2002) in Million
Yen (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 37: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Direct Claims Paid
(2001-2002) by Category in Million Yen (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 38: Direct Premiums Written Abroad by Japanese General/Non-Life
Insurers (in Million Yen) for 2001 & 2002 (includes corresponding
Graph/Chart)
- Table 39: Japanese Automobile Insurance Market: Direct Claims Paid Out by
Insurers: 1995-2002 (In Y Billion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 40: Ownership of Voluntary Automobile Insurance in Japan (1999-2001)
- Performance Indicators of Insurers: 2000
- Table 41: Leading Japanese Non-Life Insurers' Performance Indicators: 2000
(Y Billion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Disaster Claims
- Table 42: Japanese General/Non-Life Insurance Market: Claims Paid for
Typhoon or Windstorm (In Billion Yen) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 43: Japanese Fire Insurance Market: Direct Claims Paid Out by Fire
Insurers: 1995-2002 (In Y Billion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 44: Key Personal Accident Insurers in Japan by Net Premiums Written:
2000 (In Y Billion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
- Table 45: Japanese Personal Accident Insurance Market: Direct Claims Paid
Out by Insurers: 1995-2002 (In Y Billion) (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
5. Regulatory/Legislative Environment
- General Supervision...
- Accounting Practices...
- New Pension Scheme...
6. Role of Insurance Associations in the Japanese Insurance Industry
- Marine and Fire Insurance Association of Japan, Inc
- Major Activities...
- General Insurance Association of Japan
- Information Services
- Disaster Prevention and Traffic Safety Promotion
- Prevention of Social Problems
- International Activities
- Activities for Development of Confidence
- Preservation of Environment & Promote NPO Activities
- Requests and Proposals
- International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- International Meeting of Insurance Associations
- International Union of Marine Insurance
- East Asian Insurance Congress
7. Product Launch
- Euler Hermes to Launch Export Credit Insurance in Japan
8. Product Launches in the Past
- Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co. Launches Two Products
- Mitsubishi Enters into Weather Related Insurance Coverage
9. Recent Industry Activity
- Japan Post to Distribute Aflac Japan' s Cancer Insurance Product
- AEGON and Sony Life to Set-Up a New Life Insurance Company
- Millea Enters into Partnership with JP Morgan
- Millea Holdings to Take Over Nisshin Fire & Marine Insurance
- American International Group' s Japan Units to Merge
- AIG in Alliance with Bank of Tokyo
- Rakuten to Enter Non-Life Insurance Business
- Tokio Marine in Alliance with Nisshin Fire
- Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance to Acquire Mingtai Fire & Marine Insurance
- Tokio Marine to Acquire One-Fourth Shares in Tianan Insurance
- Euler Hermes to Launch Export Credit Insurance in Japan
- Japan' s Regulatory Panel to Recommend New Policy on Child Care
- AIU to Tap Japanese Trade Insurance Market
- AIG to Acquire Insurance Portfolio of the Royal & Sun
10. Strategic Developments in the Past
- Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Co. and Nissan Fire and Marine Insurance
Co. Merge
- Prudential Acquires Orico Life Insurance
- Mass Mutual Acquires Aetna Heiwa Life Insurance
- Daido Life and Taiyo Mutual Take Over Tokyo Mutual Life
- Prudential Insurance Acquires Kyoei Life Insurance
- JLT, FinTech Form Capital Risk Joint Venture
- Heiwa Opens Captive Insurer in Hawaii
- Aquila Signs Agreement with Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance
- Cigna Divests Stake in Yasuda Kasai Himawari Life Insurance
11. Focus on Select Japanese Players
- Asahi Mutual Life Insurance
- Dai -ichi Mutual Life Insurance
- Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance - Leading Life Insurer in Japan
- Millea Holdings, Inc.
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd
- Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Ltd.
- Nippon Life Insurance Co. - Largest Japanese Life Insurer.
- Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.
- Sumitomo Life Insurance
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