The risk of getting sick may soon be more important than the risk of dying, according to the life insurance industry.
As the population continues to gray, major domestic insurers are trying to grab a bigger piece of the medical and nursing-care insurance market, which has been dominated by non-Japanese insurers.
The effort comes as the market for life insurance has been shrinking since the collapse of several domestic life insurers in the late 1990s.
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