MetLife releases web content "Ryoma meets MetLife!　Daisuke Ono plays the role of Ryoma Sakamoto and speaks in his hometown Tosa dialect.

MetLife Insurance Co. has released "Ryoma meets MetLife.



This limited-time web content is based on the theme of "What if Ryoma Sakamoto had found life insurance at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate? This is a limited-time web content with the theme of "What if Ryoma Sakamoto had encountered life insurance at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate? It shows the history of MetLife, which was founded about 150 years ago in New York, the U.S., in conjunction with Ryoma Sakamoto, who was active in Japan at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate at the same time. The role of Ryoma was played by Daisuke Ono, a voice actor from Kochi Prefecture who also serves as a special tourism envoy. He plays the role of Ryoma, a local hero, in the Tosa dialect.

The historical part "Ryoma Goes to New York. The three episodes, "Ryoma, Thinking about Risk" and "Ryoma, Thinking about the Future of Insurance," are available on "MetLife Online" (http://www.metlife.co.jp/online/).