Nippon Life Insurance Company
Nippon Life Insurance Company (日本生命保険相互会社, Nihon Seimei Hoken Sōgo-gaisha?), also known as Nissay (ニッセイ, Nissei?) or Nihon Seimei (日本生命?) is the second largest Japanese life insurance company behind Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. In structure it is a mutual company.It first paid policyholder dividends in 1898. It sponsors the Women s Meijin, a Go competition. . The company was founded in 1889 as the Nippon Life Assurance Co., Inc.
