The 'Wife of the Future' Designed for Japan's Lonely Men
A multi-million dollar industry has sprung up to deal with Japan's loneliness problem. But it has a dark side.
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She's always there, always listening and always ready to cater to her husband's every whim. The problem is she's trapped in a tube. And she's not real.
Meet Azuma Hikari, Japan's holographic "wife of the future", according to her inventor Minori Takechi, who believes his AI construct can go some way to solving Japan's problem with loneliness.