# Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.

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## Overview

Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc., renamed Daiichi Life Group, Inc. effective April 1, 2026, is a life-insurance-led financial services group. Its businesses include domestic and overseas insurance, pet insurance and asset management; its products include life, annuity, medical and other insurance products. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P65716515)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26385831)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P44140666)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P45329184)

The group operates in Japan and overseas markets including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, India and Indonesia. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26385831) Its stated purpose is “opening up the possibilities of people’s lives around the world,” expressed in the phrase “By your side, for life.” [5](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/about/purpose.html) For the year ended March 31, 2026, ordinary revenues were ¥11.308 trillion; the group’s official Human Capital Report describes a workforce of more than 60,000 employees. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P100844214)[7](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/sustainability/report/hc-report/pdf/index_001.pdf)
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## Products & services

Dai-ichi Life Holdings’ products include individual protection, health and medical insurance, and savings-oriented products. Named offerings include Step Jump, an index-linked individual annuity; こども応援団・Mickey, an education-savings product; and Lifestyle Disease Severity Prevention Support Insurance. Dai-ichi Frontier Life offers savings-focused individual annuities and whole-life insurance, including Premium Present 5. Daiichi Neo Life’s range includes medical, simplified-underwriting medical, cancer and three-major-disease lump-sum coverage. [8](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/examine/lineup/products/step_jump/index.html)[9](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/examine/lineup/products/kodomo_mickey/index.html)[10](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/examine/lineup/products/just_lineup/seikatsu_shukan.html)[11](https://www.d-frontier-life.co.jp/products/)[12](https://neofirst.co.jp/product/)

The group also provides life-plan consulting and health/medical services, and supports policy procedures and contact with assigned representatives through its app; the app can link step-count information. Its pet-insurance products include うちの子, covering outpatient treatment, hospitalization and surgery, and うちの子ライト, covering surgery expenses. Products are distributed through channels including sales representatives, banks, agencies, pet shops and online sales. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3892390)[14](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/sp/campaign/kenko.html)[15](https://www.ipet-ins.com/products/)

For FY2025, bancassurance sales of single-premium fixed whole-life insurance amounted to 93,980 new policies and ¥1,049,183 million in new premiums. FY2026 Q1 new-business annualized premium (ANP) growth was reported by group business rather than by product: Dai-ichi Life +8.0%, Frontier Life −2.8%, Daiichi Neo Life −2.5% and the pet-insurance business −1.3% year on year. The cited materials do not provide product-level percentages of company performance. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16907094)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T17676223)
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## Geographic presence

For the year ended March 31, 2026, Dai-ichi Life Holdings reported ordinary revenues of ¥7,501.2 billion in Japan (66.3% of the group total), ¥2,111.3 billion in the United States (18.7%), and ¥1,695.8 billion in “Other Areas” (15.0%). The report does not specify the countries included in Other Areas. These figures are ordinary revenues, not a geographic breakdown of premiums alone. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P32352791)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P100844214)

The group’s listed insurance markets include Japan, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, India and Indonesia. The company identifies its head office in Tokyo, Japan, at Dai-Ichi Life Hibiya First, 1-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P26385831)[19](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/about/outline.html)
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## Business segments

Dai-ichi Life Holdings reports three formal business segments. In FY2024, Domestic Insurance Business—subsidiaries conducting insurance business in Japan—accounted for approximately 67.8% of reportable-segment ordinary revenues and 59.1% of segment income. Overseas Insurance Business—subsidiaries and affiliated companies conducting insurance business outside Japan—contributed approximately 31.8% of revenues and 18.5% of segment income. Other Business, covering group-company administration and non-insurance activities, mainly asset management and new business fields, contributed approximately 0.4% of revenues and 22.4% of segment income. These shares are calculated from reportable-segment totals before adjustments and eliminations; segment income is based on ordinary profit. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P19456781)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P67234376)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6161995)

In the FY2025 Q3 management presentation, the company also presented adjusted profit under a different grouping: Domestic, Overseas, Non-Insurance and Others. For the nine months ended December 31, 2025, these represented approximately 74.7%, 23.1%, 3.1% and -0.9%, respectively, of total adjusted profit. This management view is distinct from the formal reportable segments. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3774110)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T8835290)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6411359)
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## Company history

Dai-ichi was founded in 1902 by Tsuneta Yano as Japan’s first mutual life insurer. In 2010, it converted from a mutual company to a joint-stock corporation and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [26](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/about/history.html) [27](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/news_release/2010/pdf/index_003.pdf)

The company began expanding overseas in the 2000s: its Vietnamese subsidiary began operations in 2007, and it expanded in Australia through its investment in TOWER Australia, later renamed TAL. It agreed to acquire U.S.-based Protective Life in 2014 and completed the acquisition in 2015. [28](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/annual_report/2011/pdf/index_001.pdf) [29](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/news_release/2008/pdf/index_005.pdf) [30](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/news_release/2014/pdf/index_034.pdf)

On October 1, 2016, the group reorganized as a holding company, adopting the name Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. It expanded in New Zealand with the 2022 acquisition of Partners Group Holdings, parent of Partners Life, and in Japan when Benefit One became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2024. On April 1, 2026, the company changed its trade name to Daiichi Life Group, Inc. [31](https://www.dai-ichi-life.co.jp/english/news_release/2016/pdf/index_002.pdf) [32](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/investor/news/assets/pdf/2022_index_010.pdf) [33](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/investor/news/assets/pdf/2024_index_007.pdf) [34](https://www.daiichilife-group.com/en/)
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