No need to feel any pain with massage chair that costs 1 million yen - Asahi Shimbun

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OSAKA--Some customers may not find the price relaxing, but Japan's leading manufacturer of massage chairs is set to release a deluxe version that costs 1.05 million yen ($10,817).
The chair, which is covered in the finest leather, is being produced by Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co. to mark the 60th anniversary next year of the world's first massage chair.
The special “Anniversary Premium Model AN-60â€￾ will be available from September.
The device offers 32 massage techniques. It is an upgraded version of the “AS-960â€￾ released in August, which carries a price tag of 470,000 yen.
Fuji Medical officials said a user can feel as if he or she is massaged by four or five massage technicians simultaneously when receiving a full body massage lying almost flat on the reclining chair.
The predecessor of the company, called Fuji Iryoki Seisakusho (Fuji medical instrument manufacturing factory), started commercial production of massage chairs in 1954.
The earliest model was priced at 70,000 yen, which was equivalent to about eight months salary of a newly hired university graduate. It could operate only in a predetermined way from side to side.
The company said it will begin accepting orders for the anniversary model through its website from Sept. 2, for one year only. It aims to sell 1,000 units.