Sink into the warm embrace of this chair

An employee of Japan's nursing care goods maker Unicare demonstrates an easy chair for congnitively empaired persons "Yasuragi chair" at the annual International Home care and Rehabilitation exhibition in Tokyo on October 1, 2014. The chair can hug the user with the long arms with valcro tape. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Japan unveils ‘anti-loneliness’ hugging chair.

THERE are times in everyone’s life when only a hug will do. Now, one Japanese company has come up with a chair that’s always ready to give a comforting cuddle.