An elderly woman (right) smiling as she enjoys a game at Kaikaya Ltd., a nursing home for the elderly, in Yokohama, Tokyo. -AFP
YOKOHAMA, Japan: At a nursing home in suburban Tokyo, 88-year-old Saburo Sakamoto darts his fingers energetically to catch characters that appear on a touch screen in front of him.
Peals of laughter erupt from the other side of the room full of octogenarians as they wallop plastic alligators that appear from little holes or wield foam hammers to crush frogs as they pop up.
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