Big in Japan.
Japan is on a deregulation fast-track and this has opened the doors to foreign brokers. But how quick have insurers been to take advantage of the country's eastern promise. Jeremy Golden finds out.
If you subscribe to the Japanese government's viewpoint, thecountry's insurance market, the world's largest after the United States,
is well on its way to being completely deregulated and is now
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