Life and Casualty Insurance in Japan and China

I appreciate deeply the kind invitation to read a paper before the May meeting of the Casualty Actuarial Society. The original invitation from Mr. Moore suggested a paper on "Casualty Insurance Practices in Japan and China". I replied that my studies during my visit to those countries were confined mainly to fire, marine and life insurance, the three major types of insurance emphasized for the time being in the Orient, and that unfortunately the various forms of casualty insurance, as we know them in the United States, are either almost non-existent in these two great Oriental countries or only in their infancy. Mr. Moore replied that I should feel free to extend my remarks to life insurance and such casualty lines as I had the opportunity" to observe while abroad. We arranged matters on this basis and I have called my paper "Life and Casualty Insurance in Japan and China".