Sep 07, 2023 / 07:05PM GMT
Ryan Joel Krueger - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division - MD of Equity Research
We're going to get started. I'm Ryan Krueger from KBW. And it's great to have David Young from Aflac on stage with me. David is Vice President of Investor and Rating Agency Relations.
Questions and Answers:
Ryan Joel Krueger - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division - MD of Equity ResearchI'll just jump right in. Maybe we'll start with Japan first and specifically on sales in Japan. Maybe just as a backdrop, can you talk a little bit about kind of what sales conditions are like in Japan at this point? Is the country fully back to normal? Or are there still any restrictions still when it comes to face-to-face sales?
David Young -
Yes. And first of all, thank you for having us here today, Ryan. It's been great. In terms of Japan, the way we view the environment there, they're obviously a little behind the U.S. as they emerge from this pandemic. It was just recently, you would say, May, where the Infectious