Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company was created in 2004 from the merger of Meiji Life and Yasuda Life. It was founded in 1881 and is the first life insurance company in Japan. Its total amount of life insurance in force has reached 210.4859 trillion Japanese Yen, with 6,243,935 contractors (as of March, 2011). Meiji Yasuda Insurance Company has been maintaining a remarkably high level in all soundness indicators.