Yamato 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. It has policies valued at 34,500,000,000 yen. The company filed for bankruptcy on October 10 2008 after the global financial crisis significantly devalued its assets particularly mortgages in Nevada. .It was founded on September 20, 1889, and was capitalized at 12,086,963,000 Japanese yen. Yamato s headquarters were in Uchisaiwaichō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
