Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. is the core company of the SOMPO Group, we will take on a wide range of businesses that contribute to the security, health and wellbeing of our customers, leading the Group in achieving its goal of always being the best customer services provider at home and abroad.

We aim to create social value by making use of the diversity of our business, which is one of the strengths of SOMPO, and by using data and other resources as the starting point for our strategy of “Building and Making Connections.” Using the abundant data from the Group’s operations as a starting point, we will  connect our businesses to each other and make connections with multi-stakeholders to understand the needs of our customers and adapt to their changing behavior. We will also create value that only SOMPO can provide and that only SOMPO can deliver, thereby enhancing our corporate value.

With overseas subsidiaries, branch offices and representative offices located in 28 countries and regions, we are developing business globally, from developed to emerging countries.

SOMPO aims to become a corporate group that creates various innovations to increase the happiness of multiple stakeholders by practicing purpose-driven management unique to SOMPO.

The Tokyo Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., forerunner of The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd., was founded in 1888 as the first fire insurance company in Japan. Sompo Japan began the operations on 1 July 2002 after the merger of two companies, The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. and The Nissan Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. Then the company merged with Taisei Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. on 1 December 2002. Sompo Japan and Nipponkoa Insurance Co., Ltd. established a joint holding company, NKSJ Holdings, Inc. in April 2010, and changed the name to Sompo Holdings, Inc. in 2020. As regards to credit and guarantee insurance, the company started to write fidelity insurance in 1930, credit insurance in 1950, guarantee business in 1951 and bonds in 1966.

Giichi Shirakawa

Tetsuo Sugawara