RGA Reinsurance Company Japan Branch

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This entry sits under life-insurers INDEX. Read it against General Reinsurance Japan Branch as a US-headquartered reinsurer peer, and against Swiss Re Japan Branch / Hannover Re Japan Branch for life-reinsurance competitive context. The domestic-reinsurer contrast remains Toa Reinsurance, and broader system map is insurance index.

TL;DR

This is the Japan branch of RGA Reinsurance Company, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. (NYSE: RGA). As the Japan branch of one of the world’s largest specialist reinsurers focused on life & health reinsurance, it is listed in the FSA life-insurance company license list (foreign life insurers, etc.). It assumes mortality, medical, longevity, and disability risks of Japanese life insurers with global capital.

1. License / group boundary

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (rgare.com, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

2. Business lines in Japan

• Individual Life Reinsurance — mortality-risk reinsurance for individual term and whole-life insurance (traditional cession)
• Health Reinsurance — reinsurance for medical, cancer, specified disease, and disability risks
• Longevity Reinsurance — annuity and longevity risk, including pension asset-liability management solutions
• Financial Solutions — structured reinsurance and financial reinsurance for capital-efficiency improvement
• Underwriting & Product Development — technical support for life-insurance product development and underwriting assessment, providing reinsurance know-how

4. Why this page matters

• Anchor for a major player in Japan’s life-reinsurance market — adds a “life specialist” axis to the JapanFG reinsurance map, which had leaned toward P&C reinsurance
• System link connecting with life insurers such as nippon-life / dai-ichi-life / aflac-japan
• Together with gen-re-japan / swiss-re-japan, forms the US / European foreign reinsurer map

Related

• INDEX
• gen-re-japan
• swiss-re-japan
• hannover-re-japan
• scor-japan
• toa-reinsurance
• INDEX

Sources

• RGA official: Japan operations page (https://www.rgare.com/about-rga/our-company/global-operations/japan, see 2026-05-24)
• FSA: insurance company license list (https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/hoken.pdf, see 2026-05 )
• FSA: life-insurance company license list, including foreign life insurers (https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/seimei.pdf)

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[!info] Validation Status confidence: likely. RGA’s specialist life-reinsurance position and Japan branch registration in the FSA foreign life-insurer license category are based on public information. Japan-branch underwriting volume and contract counts are discretionary disclosures; this entry provides a structural and role overview.