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Dai-Ichi Jitsugyo signage and logo

Dai-ichi Jitsugyo's signboard and logo (photo taken at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2025 YOKOHAMA).=May 21,2025,Kanagawa

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Gunma Bank and Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group Business Integration Conference

Gunma Bank and Dai-ichi Hokuetsu Financial Group management integration press conference. Photo shows, from right, Takeo Uchibori, Senior Managing Director of Gunma Bank, Akihiko Fukai, President of Gunma Bank, Michirou Ueguri, President of Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group, and Ken Shibata, Senior Managing Director of Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group.=April 24,2025,Japan

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Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo=Date:October 24, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo=Date:October 24, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo=Date:October 24, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Dai-ichi Life poised to buy U.S. insurer Protective

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2011 shows the headquarters of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Dai-ichi Life is poised to acquire Protective Life Corp. of the United States for about 500 billion yen ($4.9 billion), sources familiar with the matter said June 2, 2014.

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Classroom-like bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Customers drink in the ''science room'' at ''Koshitsu Izakaya 6-Nen 4-Kumi Shibuya Dai-Ichi Bunko'' (Private-Booth Bar: Sixth Grade, Fourth Class in the Shibuya Branch School), a bar featuring booths resembling school classrooms in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on Sept. 3, 2010.

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Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Watanabe (R), president of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010. The second-largest Japanese life insurer made its debut on the bourse the same day with an opening price of 160,000 yen per share, higher than its initial public offering price.

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Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Watanabe, president of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010. The second-largest Japanese life insurer made its debut on the bourse the same day with an opening price of 160,000 yen per share, higher than its initial public offering price.

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Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Watanabe, president of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010. The second-largest Japanese life insurer made its debut on the bourse the same day with an opening price of 160,000 yen per share, higher than its initial public offering price.

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Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Watanabe, president of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., speaks about the April 1, 2010, debut of the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange during an interview with Kyodo News in late March. The Japanese second-largest life insurer was listed on the bourse with an opening price of 160,000 yen per share.

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Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - An electric board message at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo shows Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Japan's second-largest life insurer, fetching 160,000 yen per share as the insurer, formerly a mutually owned company, made its debut on the TSE's First Section on April 1, 2010.

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Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - An electric board message at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo shows Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Japan's second-largest life insurer, fetching 160,000 yen per share as the insurer, formerly a mutually owned company, made its debut on the TSE's First Section on April 1, 2010.

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6 of 9 major life insurers see core profits expand in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichiro Watanabe speaks on the company's business results for fiscal 2006 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 30. Six of Japan's nine major life insurers saw their core operating profits expand in the 2006 business year ended March 31 from a year earlier, supported by improved conditions for their fund management following interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan.

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Life insurers fail to pay 26.8 bil. yen insurance over 5 years

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Katsutoshi Saito (C) and other Dai-ichi executives bow in apology over nonpayment of insurance money at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13. Dai-ichi is among 12 leading life insurance companies in Japan that admitted they had skipped 26.8 billion yen in insurance money payment in 230,000 cases over the five years from fiscal 2001.

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Core profit at Japan's 9 big life insurers hits record high

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichi Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27 on the group's business results for the first half of fiscal 2006. The combined core operating profit at Japan's nine major life insurers hit a record high for the April-September period, supported by the solid stock market and rising returns from bond investment.

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Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

TOKYO, Japan - Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura (file photo), one of the architects of the mega banking group Mizuho, died on Aug. 1 at a Tokyo hospital of heart failure. He was 73. As then president of the IBJ, Nishimura led the three-way merger in 2000 of his bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. was established in 2003 as the group holding company.

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New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference early on Nov. 1. He retracted his earlier comments that he would not sign any orders for executions. Immediately after he was appointed justice minister in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet reshuffle, Sugiura, a licensed lawyer who once served as vice chairman of the Tokyo Dai-Ichi Bar Association, said he believes the social trend is for the eventual abolition of capital punishment.

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Saudi Arabian food served at Tokyo school

CHOFU, Japan - Saudi Arabian food (in photo) is served for lunch May 9 at the city-run Dai-ichi Primary School in Chofu, Tokyo, where Saudi Arabia will train before the World Cup soccer finals.

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Nikkei recovers 10,000-mark

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihombashi shows the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average closed above 10,000 on Sept. 14 for the first time in three days. The index jumped 395.80 points on news that Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank will stop providing financial assistance to ailing supermarket chain Mycal Corp. The news immediately sent stock prices to negative territory, but they later picked up as investors digested the report as a positive factor for banks.

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BOJ starts real-time settlement system

TOKYO, Japan - Female employees of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank handle settlement data on computers in the bank's head office in Tokyo's Uchisaiwaicho district Jan. 4. The Bank of Japan launched the Real-Time Gross-Settlement system the same day to track the debts banks owe each other.

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Tomijiro Morita (L) and American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus (AFLAC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel O. Amos shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7. The two companies have agreed to form a business alliance to market each other's products from early 2001, subject to regulatory approval.

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Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Tomijiro Morita (L), president of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Hiroshi Hirano, president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., shake hands after announcing in Tokyo on Aug. 28 they have agreed to form a wide-ranging business alliance. The alliance between Dai-ichi Mutual, Japan's second-largest life insurer, and Yasuda Fire, the No. 2 nonlife insurer, is the first between a major life insurer and nonlife insurer in Japan.

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Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku district of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., which plans to enter into a comprehensive business tie-up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co.

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Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire & Marine to tie up

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office in Tokyo's Yurakucho business district of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., which plans to join hands with Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. with a view to integrating operations in the future.

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Dai-Ichi Hotel goes under

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 26 shows Dai-Ichi Hotel in Tokyo, which effectively went under earlier in the day after filing with the Tokyo District Court for protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ name joint holding firm Mizuho Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (L), president of Fuji Bank, Katsuyuki Sugita (C), president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), and Masao Nishimura (R), president of the Industrial Bank of Japan, shake hands at the DKB headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after announcing their decision to name the joint holding company they plan to create next year Mizuho Holdings Inc. The name ''Mizuho,'' which means ''fresh ears of rice'' in Japanese, was chosen in consultation with an advertising agency because it is used in a special appellation for Japan, ''Mizuho no Kuni'' (Land of Golden Ears of Rice), according to bank officials.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ announce joint holding company

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Masao Nishimura, president of the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), and Yoshiro Yamamoto, president of Fuji Bank, speak at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Aug. 20 on their agreement on a wide-ranging business alliance that would create the world's biggest banking group with some 141 trillion yen (about 1.27 trillion dollars) in combined assets.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ in talks on business alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken Aug. 19, shows the headquarters of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank in Tokyo, which is in talks with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan on a business alliance that could create the world's largest banking group in terms of assets.

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Sugita named chairman of bankers' group

Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, meets the press in Tokyo on April 20 after being named chairman of the newly organized Japanese Bankers Association. The group, previously the Federation of Bankers Associations of Japan, was renamed as a result of organizational changes, including acceptance of foreign members for the first time.

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DKB, J.P. Morgan to set up trust venture

Taira Hosaka (3rd from L), senior managing director of Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), shakes hands with Keith M. Schappert, president of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.of the United States, in Tokyo on Oct. 1. DKB and J.P. Morgan and Co. agreed to set up a joint investment trust venture early next year as part of a broad capital tie-up between the two banks. DKB will be the first of Japan's nine major commercial banks to form a capital tie-up with a foreign financial institution.

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DKB president testifies

Katsuhiko KONDO, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank suspected of making illegal payoffs to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer, testifies at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on June 5, when Tokyo prosecutors arrested for executives of the major commercial bank on the suspicion.

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DKB president testifies at Diet

Katsuhiko KONDO (R), the president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank which is suspected of making illegal payoffs to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer, testifies at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on June 5, when prosecutors arrested four former and incumbent executives of the major commercial bank in the case.

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Dai-ichi Sheet Metal's "Bottle Friend LSE" for peeling off labels without crushing plastic bottles.jpg

Daiichikin (Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama) has developed a new model "LSE (Label Separator)" in its "Bottle Friend" series of devices that automatically remove labels from PET bottles. Unlike conventional models, it can remove labels without crushing the bottles. The price is about 2.5 million yen (excluding consumption tax). It will be marketed to PET bottle collectors and businesses that recycle and use bottles as materials. The sales target is yet to be determined. Delivery time after receiving an order is two to three months. The company has already started receiving orders and is making proposals to its customers. The device consists of a cylindrical "outer cylinder" and a rotating octagonal "inner cylinder" inside the outer cylinder. Photo taken on June 11, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference early on Nov. 1. He retracted his earlier comments that he would not sign any orders for executions. Immediately after he was appointed justice minister in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet reshuffle, Sugiura, a licensed lawyer who once served as vice chairman of the Tokyo Dai-Ichi Bar Association, said he believes the social trend is for the eventual abolition of capital punishment. (Kyodo)

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Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

TOKYO, Japan - Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura (file photo), one of the architects of the mega banking group Mizuho, died on Aug. 1 at a Tokyo hospital of heart failure. He was 73. As then president of the IBJ, Nishimura led the three-way merger in 2000 of his bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. was established in 2003 as the group holding company. (Kyodo)

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Core profit at Japan's 9 big life insurers hits record high

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichi Watanabe speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27 on the group's business results for the first half of fiscal 2006. The combined core operating profit at Japan's nine major life insurers hit a record high for the April-September period, supported by the solid stock market and rising returns from bond investment. (Kyodo)

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Life insurers fail to pay 26.8 bil. yen insurance over 5 years

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Katsutoshi Saito and other Dai-ichi executives bow in apology over nonpayment of insurance money at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13. Dai-ichi is among 12 leading life insurance companies in Japan that admitted they had skipped 26.8 billion yen in insurance money payment in 230,000 cases over the five years from fiscal 2001. (Kyodo)

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6 of 9 major life insurers see core profits expand in FY 2006

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Executive Director Koichi Watanabe speaks on the company's business results for fiscal 2006 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 30. Six of Japan's nine major life insurers saw their core operating profits expand in the 2006 business year ended March 31 from a year earlier, supported by improved conditions for their fund management following interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei recovers 10,000-mark

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Nihombashi shows the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average closed above 10,000 on Sept. 14 for the first time in three days. The index jumped 395.80 points on news that Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank will stop providing financial assistance to ailing supermarket chain Mycal Corp. The news immediately sent stock prices to negative territory, but they later picked up as investors digested the report as a positive factor for banks.

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Dai-Ichi Hotel goes under

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 26 shows Dai-Ichi Hotel in Tokyo, which effectively went under earlier in the day after filing with the Tokyo District Court for protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law.

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Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Tomijiro Morita (L) and American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus (AFLAC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel O. Amos shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7. The two companies have agreed to form a business alliance to market each other's products from early 2001, subject to regulatory approval.

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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Dai-ichi Life to increase highly professional sales staff

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. President Koichiro Watanabe gives an interview to Kyodo News at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2015. Watanabe said the company will increase the number of highly professional sales staff. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dai-ichi Life aims to acquire European insurer

Photo taken May 26, 2015 shows Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. President Koichiro Watanabe in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. The company aims to acquire a European insurer by March 2018 to expand into Europe, he said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dai-ichi Life tops Nippon Life in premium income for 1st time

Kazuhiro Kojima, director of Nippon Life Insurance Co., briefs reporter on the company's consolidated financial results for fiscal 2014 in Tokyo on May 28, 2015. Nippon Life lost its position as Japan's largest earner of life insurance premiums to rival Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. in the year for the first time in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Saudi Arabian food served at Tokyo school

CHOFU, Japan - Saudi Arabian food (in photo) is served for lunch May 9 at the city-run Dai-ichi Primary School in Chofu, Tokyo, where Saudi Arabia will train before the World Cup soccer finals.

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Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - An electric board message at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo shows Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Japan's second-largest life insurer, fetching 160,000 yen per share as the insurer, formerly a mutually owned company, made its debut on the TSE's First Section on April 1, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Classroom-like bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Customers drink in the ''science room'' at ''Koshitsu Izakaya 6-Nen 4-Kumi Shibuya Dai-Ichi Bunko'' (Private-Booth Bar: Sixth Grade, Fourth Class in the Shibuya Branch School), a bar featuring booths resembling school classrooms in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on Sept. 3, 2010. (Kyodo)

Dai-Ichi Jitsugyo signage and logo

Gunma Bank and Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group Business Integration Conference

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life Group signage and logo

Dai-ichi Life poised to buy U.S. insurer Protective

Classroom-like bar in Tokyo

Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

Dai-ichi Life debuts on TSE

Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

6 of 9 major life insurers see core profits expand in FY 2006

Life insurers fail to pay 26.8 bil. yen insurance over 5 years

Core profit at Japan's 9 big life insurers hits record high

Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

Saudi Arabian food served at Tokyo school

Nikkei recovers 10,000-mark

BOJ starts real-time settlement system

Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

Dai-ichi Life, Yasuda Fire agree on alliance

Yasuda Fire &amp; Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire &amp; Marine to tie up

Dai-Ichi Hotel goes under

DKB, Fuji, IBJ name joint holding firm Mizuho Holdings

DKB, Fuji, IBJ announce joint holding company

DKB, Fuji, IBJ in talks on business alliance

Sugita named chairman of bankers' group

DKB, J.P. Morgan to set up trust venture

DKB president testifies

DKB president testifies at Diet

Dai-ichi Sheet Metal's "Bottle Friend LSE" for peeling off labels without crushing plastic bottles.jpg

New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

Core profit at Japan's 9 big life insurers hits record high

Life insurers fail to pay 26.8 bil. yen insurance over 5 years

6 of 9 major life insurers see core profits expand in FY 2006

Nikkei recovers 10,000-mark

Dai-Ichi Hotel goes under

Dai-ichi Life, AFLAC to form Japan alliance

Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

Dai-ichi Life to increase highly professional sales staff

Dai-ichi Life aims to acquire European insurer

Dai-ichi Life tops Nippon Life in premium income for 1st time

Saudi Arabian food served at Tokyo school

Dai-ichi Life shares fetch 160,000 yen each on debut on TSE

Classroom-like bar in Tokyo

Yasuda Fire & Marine to team up with Dai-ichi Mutual Life

Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Yasuda Fire & Marine to tie up