insurance

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government submitted an amendment that would oblige cyclists to purchase liability insurance following a series of bicycle accidents in which pedestrians were severely injured.

As Japan Post’s debacle expands, the problems are being blamed on the postal and financial behemoth’s failure to update its customer data management system, sources said.

Japan Post Holdings Co. said Wednesday the group will examine all 30 million insurance contracts created for Japan Post Insurance Co. that have been in effect during the past five years, after evidence surfaced of inappropriate sales practices. The parent company said the Japan Post ...

The sum roughly doubled from the previously recognized number of 93,000 after the company checked all of its new 10 million contracts concluded over the five years through fiscal 2018.

Japan Post Co. is planning to scrap sales quotas assigned to post office workers for products of Japan Post Insurance Co. in fiscal 2019, which ends next March, it was learned Sunday. Japan Post hopes to put priority on dealing with customers who have been ...

Japan Post Co. is considering suspending commissioned sales of insurance products from private companies such as Nippon Life Insurance Co. through post offices across the nation, sources have said. The move comes after the revelation last month of inappropriate sales practices by Japan Post employees ...

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. will conduct a probe into a car insurance products that have been sold by Japan Post Co. on commission, it has been learned. The move to launch the survey on the actual situation of the products, which were ...

Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. has begun checking for any inappropriate contracts for its insurance products sold on commission by Japan Post Holdings Co. units, sources said Wednesday. The investigation, launched this month, comes in the wake of the revelation last month of inappropriate sales ...