Finance & economics | Life insurers in Japan
A losing roll
Japan’s life-insurance industry is hobbled by poor returns
|Tokyo
FOR almost a decade, Japan's life insurers have been losing money. Five have collapsed in the past year. Nobody expects the rest to announce anything other than awful annual results on June 4th.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “A losing roll”
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