Manulife Launches New Initiatives Looking Ahead to the 100-Year Life Era

Manulife Life Insurance Company (Representative Director, President & CEO: Ryan Charland, Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter 'Manulife') will start distributing new content this spring to support forward-looking life planning in the 100-year life era through sponsorships of a new YouTube program and a segment in a popular radio show.

Under the brand message 'Certain choices for your life', Manulife aims to support each person living in the 100-year life era to confidently choose their unique future and move forward positively. In addition to providing products and services related to emergency coverage and asset building, they have valued providing opportunities for thought and gateways for dialogue to people facing long life milestones and uncertainties. Through the two programs rolled out this time, they will deliver hints for people to face their own choices.

Decisions Become Stories, and Stories Foster Confidence
The YouTube program 'Storyboard', which began streaming in mid-March, is a talk variety show hosted by actor Aran Abe. Welcoming creators of works that have influenced Japanese culture as guests, it unravels the thoughts put into their works, and the choices, conflicts, and values behind them. Believing that touching upon the experiences accumulated by creators and the meaningful decisions born from them leads to awareness and confidence for viewers when facing their own life choices, Manulife became a long-term partner of this program.

Program overview is as follows:
- Program: YouTube 'Storyboard'
- Streaming start: Friday, March 13, 2026
- MC: Aran Abe
- Production: DOTS&LINE STUDIO
- Program URL: https://www.youtube.com/@storyboard_jp

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