History of Meiji Life Insurance Company

In 1881, Taizo Abe, a former student of Yukichi Fukuzawa, established Meiji Life Insurance Limited Company in tandem with Heigoro Shoda and other early pioneers of the Mitsubishi conglomerate.

Meiji Life was the first company in Japan to provide a modern-day life insurance service, in which premiums were determined based on expected mortality rates and other actuarial factors.