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Prosthetic limbs for rent in Tokyo, 1st such service in Japan

By HIROKI ENDO/ Staff Writer
October 16, 2017 at 17:45 JST

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Amputees who are aspiring athletes can now

try out prosthetic limbs for a small fee at a
shop that opened in Tokyo on Oct. 15 to offer
the first such service of its kind in Japan.

Gisoku no Toshokan (Library of artificial What's New

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Saito, a fourth-grader at elementary school,
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Artificial limbs for sports use are typically
made of light-weight carbon but range in price
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600,000 yen or so, making them more WASABI - Japanese flavor
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Customers can try out the various limbs for has influenced food culture around
just 500 yen, in addition to a charge for using the world.
Haruta Saito, 10, tries out a rental artificial the facility.
limb for athletes in Tokyo’s Koto Ward on 360-DEGREE LIVES
Oct. 15. Ken Endo, representative of Xiborg Ken Endo, representative of Xiborg Inc., a The page features videos of variety of
Inc., a venture to develop prosthetic limbs, animals. You can view the videos as
startup to develop prosthesis limbs, came up
interactive images that allows you to
stands behind Haruta and encourages him. with the idea of limb rentals and worked with pan and zoom in to them.
(Hiroki Endo) like-minded people to raise funds for the
project through crowdfunding. TSUKIJI - Kitchen of the Times
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Toyosu district, and also introduces
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