The sector is highly concentrated. The Japanese life insurance market consists ofonly 47 companies, and only 52 insurers operate in the Japanese nonlife sector. JPI accountsfor 21 percent of the life premium and the next four largest life insurers for another43 percent. The five largest nonlife insurers, belonging to three insurance groups, account for82 percent of the nonlife premium. About one-half of the insurers operating in the Japaneseinsurance market are now foreign-owned, with a 20 percent market share in the life sectorand a less than 10 percent share in the nonlife sector. There are also 6,921 cooperatives,whose services include life and nonlife insurance. Premiums in both the life and nonlifesectors have stagnated in recent years.
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