An 80-year-old Japanese woman creates an app for the elderly that facilitates their access to the digital world

Wakamiya is very happy with the spread of her game.

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Even in this age of smartphones, Japanese 80's and Wamiya Masako feel that the elderly in Japan, whose people are aging, are being shut out of the tech world.

Twenty-five years after retiring from running a bank, she was spending most of her time helping her elderly friends use smartphones, and she saw that her friends were having a tough time, because there weren't any games and apps geared toward their age group.

And I thought that one possible solution to their problem was to create an application for a digital game aimed at encouraging the elderly, to deal with smartphones more easily.

In our increasingly digital world, it is the gateway to new skills and social opportunities.

This 80's developed an app to ensure that her fellow seniors were not left out of this digital world.

To achieve her goal, she enlisted the help of an expert, and her idea brought her fame at home and abroad.

“Wakamiya asked me to develop a game app in which the old could beat the young,” remembers Tsiract Koizumi Katsushiro, a company that teaches computer programming and app development, but suggested that she make the app herself, and that he would help her.

Ms. Wakamiya accepted the challenge, and struggled for about six months to create the game.

In 2017, at the age of 82, Wakamiya released the game "Hanadan", a game related to the traditional Hanamatsuri festival, a celebration of Girls' Day.

In the Hanadan app, which takes its name from a stand for displaying traditional Japanese puppets, the user of the app has to move the puppets to the appropriate places according to the roles: the emperor and the empress, the young women working in the court, as well as the musicians working in the court with their musical instruments.

This game has been released so far in five languages.

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