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APAC Weekly - The various drivers behind growth in Asia's state-backed reinsurers
10 September 2025It is easy, yet wrong, to see all APAC's developing and mature economies as needing more insurance for the same reasons
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APAC Weekly - Japan and its insurers prepare for 'The Big One'
29 July 2025Insurers, authorities and society are preparing for the coastal Nankai Trough to wreak havoc
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Japan's major earthquake reinsurer backs district's 'disaster prevention bond'
24 July 2025A major earthquake hit Hyogo district 30 years ago
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Japan's non-life net income leaped 47% last year on keiretsu sell-downs
16 June 2025Falls in local shareholdings dented solvency of country's lifers, in year to March
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Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
06 June 2025A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate
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Japan's earthquake reinsurer backs gender-based project bond
29 November 2024Five-year bond carries 0.82% coupon
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Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs sustainability-linked bond
28 June 2024Commitment marks second ESG bond investment by insurer this month
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Japan's earthquake risk reinsurer buys into social bond
10 June 2024Underwriter now holds 46 social, green and sustainability-linked issues
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Comment - When police only tell insurers half the story (about natcats)
13 March 2024Insurers have a role to play in mitigating natcat losses - and Japan shows just how broadly they define their responsibility
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Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond
04 March 2024Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors