The National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (Japanese: 全国共済農業協同組合連合会), commonly known as "JA Kyosai" (ＪＡ共済) or ZENKYOREN, is Japan's national mutual aid association of

agricultural cooperative An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperati ...

s, founded based on Japan's

Agricultural Cooperative Law Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. ZENKYOREN was founded in 1951 and provides

property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, r ...

, liability and

life insurance Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death ...

.Zenkyoren, Ltd. Business Profile.
''BusinessWeek.''

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* Agriculture in Japan Cooperative federations Financial services companies established in 1951 1951 establishments in Japan Cooperatives in Japan {{Japan-org-stub