, also known as or is the largest Japanese life insurance company by revenue. The company was founded in 1889 as the Nippon Life Assurance Co., Inc. In structure it is a mutual company. It first paid policyholder dividends in 1898.
Nippon Life employs 70,519 employees and has 70,608 billion yen in assets as of 2016. The company is headquartered in Imabashi Sanchà Âme, Chà «à Â-ku, Osaka, Japan. It has a wholly owned subsidiary, Resolution Life, which operates in Southeast Asia and the United States.