SCOR Reinsurance Japan Branch (スコール再保険日本支店)

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This entry sits under non-life-insurers INDEX. Read it against Hannover Re Japan Branch as a fellow “European third-tier” reinsurer, and the “Big 2” peers Munich Re Japan Branch and Swiss Re Japan Branch. The system anchor is nat-cat reinsurance Japan, with domestic contrast Toa Reinsurance.

TL;DR

The Japan branch of SCOR SE (a major European reinsurer listed in Paris, France). One corner of the 4 major European reinsurers (Munich Re / Swiss Re / Hannover Re / SCOR), it is a France-origin global reinsurance player. Listed on the FSA’s non-life insurance company license list (foreign non-life insurance companies, etc.), it covers the Japanese market in both the P&C and Life & Health segments.

1. License / group boundary

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (scor.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

• P&C Treaty Reinsurance — treaty reinsurance for earthquake / typhoon catastrophe / property / liability
• Specialty Insurance Reinsurance — Marine, Aviation, Energy, Credit & Surety, Engineering, Cyber
• L&H Reinsurance — life reinsurance for death / medical / long-term care / longevity risk
• Alternative Solutions — capital-market-linked products such as Insurance-Linked Securities and Sidecars

4. Why this page matters

• The last piece of the European “Big 4” reinsurers — completing the panel-structure map of the Japan reinsurance market
• Connects the natcat-reinsurance-japan system page with the primary mega non-life insurer cluster
• Together with munich-re-japan / swiss-re-japan / hannover-re-japan, forms the “foreign-capital reinsurance Big 4 in Japan” cluster

Related

• INDEX
• munich-re-japan
• swiss-re-japan
• hannover-re-japan
• toa-reinsurance
• japan-earthquake-reinsurance
• rga-japan
• natcat-reinsurance-japan
• INDEX

Sources

• SCOR official: SCOR Japan location page（https://www.scor.com/en/locations/scor-japan, 2026-05-24 参照）
• FSA: 保険会社免許一覧（https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/hoken.pdf, 2026-05 参照）
• FSA: 損害保険会社免許一覧（外国損保含む、https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/songai.pdf）

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[!info] Verification status confidence: likely. SCOR’s position as one of Europe’s 4 major reinsurers is as per public information. The Japan branch’s underwriting scale and premiums are voluntarily disclosed, so this article concentrates on a structural overview.