- CEO
- Keisuke Suzuki
- Full Time Employees
- 1,304
- Sector
- Health technology
- Industry
- Medical specialties
- Address
- Tennoz Ocean Square Tokyo TY Japan 140-0002
- IPO Date
- Dec 8, 1997
- Business
- Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd. manufactures, imports, distributes and sells medical devices primarily focused on cardiovascular treatments in Japan. The company offers cardiac rhythm management products including cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators and pacemakers, automated external defibrillators, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation support devices; electrophysiology and ablation products such as electrophysiological and ablation catheters, irrigated tip ablation catheters, endoscopic balloon ablation systems, esophageal temperature monitoring systems, internal atrial cardioversion systems, and radio-frequency transseptal needles; cardiovascular and endografting products comprising vascular grafts, thoracic stent grafts, abdominal stent grafts, and frozen elephant trunks; gastrointestinal intervention products including cholangioscopes, biliary tube stents, papillary balloon dilatation catheters, self-expandable duodenal and colonic stents, endoscopic guidewires, and radiofrequency ablation systems for liver cancer; structural heart disease intervention products such as atrial septal defect closure devices and transcatheter heart valves; and neurovascular intervention products like thrombus aspiration catheters, intravascular embolic coils, and stent retrievers. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, the company operates sales offices across Japan, manufacturing facilities including Toda Factory, Ichihara Factory, and Oyama Factory, and international subsidiaries such as JLL Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Recent developments include a September 2024 launch of a stent retriever for neurovascular interventions; a business partnership announced in September 2025 with Heartseed to co-develop and supply a catheter delivery system for clinical trials of iPS cell-derived cardiomyocyte spheroids in regenerative medicine for severe heart failure; and a March 2025 exclusive three-year distribution agreement with Philips Japan, Ltd., effective May 1, 2025, for lead management products following a basic agreement signed December 25, 2024.