Japan
AIR Worldwide : little damage reported from Japan 7.3 magnitude earthquake
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on December 7 2012, 270 kilometers...
Japan : insurers stop China riot coverage
Big Japanese insurers have stopped covering firms against riots in China, a report said Friday, a move seen likely to hit investment there as...
RMS : updates its Japan Earthquake Model
RMS today announced the release of an update to its Japan Earthquake Model, incorporating a re-characterization of hazard resulting from the 2011 Great East...
RMS : comments on the floods in Japan
Intense rainfall over the 24 hours from 12:00UTC on Wednesday, July 11, has resulted in flash flooding, as rivers burst their banks, and landslides...
Fitch Ratings : rating actions on Japanese insurers on sovereign downgrade
Fitch Ratings has revised Nippon Life’s outlook to stable from Positive and affirmed its insurer financial strength (IFS) rating. The ratings for Daido Life...
Hannover Re raises reinsurance prices
Hannover Re has increased it's premium price for hurricane an earthquake losses, as the reinsurer renewed it's contracts with insurers last month (January).
Hannover, the...
Japan : Tokio Marine to buy Delphi Financial
Major Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings said Wednesday it will buy US-based Delphi Financial Group for $2.66 million in a bid to expand its...
Japan : Fukushima nuclear power plant director is sick
The director of Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is stepping down because of illness, the plant's operator said Monday, without revealing whether...
EIOPA / report : equivalence assessment of the Bermudan, Japanese and Swiss supervisory systems
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has just released three equivalency reports. The European Commission has already asked about equivalency to the preceding...
AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Roke headed for Japan
As Typhoon Roke advances towards central and western Japan, more than a million people have been evacuated. Formed on September 10, Roke is the...
AIR Worldwide : estimates losses from tropical storm Talas
Tropical Storm Talas is the season’s 12th named storm, the seventh severe tropical storm and the fifth typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season....
AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Talas heads for Japan
Typhoon Talas formed on August 25 as the Japan Meteorological Agency’s (JMA) 12th named storm of the 2011 Northwest Pacific typhoon season. The typhoon...
Short news : Japan diners closed after dysentery outbreak
Japanese restaurant chain operator Skylark has closed 120 outlets in northeastern Japan following an outbreak of dysentery, media reports said Wednesday.
Skylark on Wednesday suspend...
Japan : women remain world’s longest-lived
Japanese women remained the world's longest-living last year, although their average life expectancy edged down slightly to 86.39 years, the government said Wednesday.
The fall...
Fitch Ratings : Risk Japan conference
Fitch Solutions is pleased to confirm that it is sponsoring the Risk Japan forum, the premier event for risk and investment professionals across the...
Japan : Typhoon Ma-On stroke southern Japan
The strong Typhoon Ma-On stroke southern Japan with torrential rains and strong winds leaving dozens injured and cancelling more than 100 flights.
Packing gusts of...
AIR Worldwide : Typhoon Ma-On nears Japan
According to catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide, with winds gusting to 157 kilometres per hour (98 miles per hour), Category 2 Typhoon Ma-On (local...
Japan city to give radiation counters to children
Japan's Fukushima city said Tuesday it would hand radiation measuring devices to 34,000 children to gauge their exposure from the crippled nuclear power plant...
Lancet letter : store blood cells from Fukushima workers
A group of Japanese doctors on Friday urged workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to have their blood stemcells stored as a safeguard should...
Japan can – and will – be a normal economy again
For several decades, business and economic pundits have exoticized Japan's economy. The supposed lost decades since 1990 have only heightened perceptions of a country...
