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New Books on Japan: Ryan Moran on "Selling the Future" and the history of life insurance in Japan

Book: Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance (Cornell University Press, 2024) Author: Ryan Moran, Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah Moderator: Timothy Yang, Associate Professor of History & Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Georgia Selling the Future explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consumers to deal with every contingency on their own, insurance industry administrators argued that their usage of statistical data enabled them to chart the predictable future for the aggregate. Through insurance, companies and the state thus offered consumers a means to a perfectible future in an era filled with repeated crises. Life insurance functioned as an important modernist technology within Japan and its colonies to instantiate expectations for responsibility, to reconfigure meanings of mutuality, and to normalize new social formations (such as the nuclear family) as essential to life. Life insurance thus offers an important vehicle for examining the confluence of modes of mobilizing and organizing bodies, the expropriation of financial resources, and the action of disciplining workers into a capitalist system. This event was co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Center for Asian Studies and was originally given via Zoom on May 5, 2025. ***** The Modern Japan History Association (MJHA) is a professional association of scholars interested in modern Japan and Japanese history. Those interested in joining MJHA can become a member here: https://mjha.org/join 日本近現代史学協会（MJHA）は、近現代日本と日本史に興味関心を持つ研究者の専門家団体です。MJHAへの入会に興味のある方は、こちらから入会できます：https://mjha.org/join