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Japanese life insurance company
The Yamato Life Insurance Company (大和生命保険, Yamato Seimei Hoken Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 0018) was a life-insurance company in Japan. Yamato's headquarters were in Uchisaiwaichō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.2 It employed 1,144 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Yamato Life Insurance Company (大和生命保険, Yamato Seimei Hoken Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 0018) was a life-insurance company in Japan. Yamato's headquarters were in Uchisaiwaichō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.2
The company was founded on September 20, 1889, and was capitalized at ¥12,086,963,000. In 1911, it entered the market for conscription insurance (under the name Nippon Chōhei Hoken), but after Japan's defeat in World War II and the elimination of military conscription, it changed its focus to life insurance and changed its name to Yamato Life in 1945. It has policies valued at ¥34,500,000,000.
From Wikipedia’s article on Yamato Life, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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