🇯🇵 Japan · Modern
Massage Chairマッサージチェアマッサージチェア
The chair kneading back and legs with rollers and airbags, first commercialised by Japan's Fuji Medical Instruments in 1954; Japan led the world market, from bathhouses to homes.
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- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Era
- Modern
- Classification
- Technology
- Techniques
- Machine / Vibration / Percussion
- Practitioner body parts
- Machine
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Device
- Also known as
- Electric massage chair · 3D / 4D massage chair · AI massage chair
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