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In Japan, Virtual Partners Fill a Romantic Void
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September 22, 2017
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6:03Now PlayingMeet Hikari, an anime virtual wife, and Eisuke, a virtual boyfriend who plays to a masochist fantasy, these are products of a multi-million dollar industry that's sprung up in response to Japan's relationship crisis. In episode three of the Bloomberg video series Love Disrupted, we look at the characters invented to fill the romantic void in Japanese lives.
Video by Vicky Feng, Robin Fall, Pavel Alpeyev and Karen Lee
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