Kyoei files for bankruptcy

TOKYO, Japan - Shoichi Otsuka, president of Kyoei Life Insurance Co., expresses his apology at a news conference Oct. 20. The troubled midsize insurer filed for protection from creditors with the Tokyo District Court earlier in the day, making it the largest life insurer to collapse since World War II.

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