Toys are no longer just child’s play in Japan, where an ageing population and expanding waistlines have spawned a wave of gadgets to help adults beat stress, battle the bulge or relieve loneliness.

China, Mainland young adult toy market is only a year is likely to reach 500 billion yuan. In addition, the elderly population in the mainland reached 120 million, with the arrival of aging society and increasing social pressures, increasing the pace of work, older people also need toys for entertainment, exercise, therefore, old age is also a toy industry toy one can not ignore the market growth.

Here we will take the toys for adult market in Japan for example to show you the hot trnd of toys for grown-ups.

Especially hot last year In Japan were card games and girls’ toys, according to Japan Toy Association. The shift comes amid increased efforts to get people into shape in a country where more than one fifth of the population is aged 65 or older, a percentage expected to rise to 40.5 percent in 2055, according to the government.

“Toy companies are increasingly focusing more on toys for adults due to health worries but also lonelier people as there are more single households as the population ages and fewer women marry,” said Sei Toyama, one of the organisers of the Tokyo Toy Show.

Drawing big crowds Thursday was Sega’s “Eternal Maiden Actualization,” a 15-inch (38-centimeter) busty female robot that offers companionship for lonely men. She retails for about US$175, can kiss, sing, dance and hand out business cards with a feminine walk:

Bandai Co.’s latest electronic piggybank “Ikemen Bank” at the International Tokyo Toy Show. “Ikemen Bank”, or “Handsome Man Bank”, is a heart-shaped electronic piggy bank with an LCD screen that allows its owner to conduct a virtual affair with a cartoon character while watching their coins pile up:

And for people who are too busy or shy to go out dancing, Sega and Hasbro have teamed up to develop the Ampbot, a two-wheeled dancing robot with stereo sound – It’s for men who like robots and who as children dreamed of living one day with robots.

The music playing humanoid robot “A.M.P. (Automated Music Personality) Bot”, jointly developed by Japanese toymaker Sega Toys and U.S. toy company Hasbro, is demonstrated at the International Tokyo Toy Show. The robot which balances on two wheels is equipped with infrared sensors to detect and avoid objects, and can be operated by a palm-sized remote controller. The companies will start to accept orders from August 1 and the robot will go on sale in Japan and the U.S. in November:

Japanese miniature train model maker Eishindo’s T-gauge, which the company claims is the world’s smallest commercially available model railroading scale, is displayed at the International Tokyo Toy Show:

Tomy’s “Aero Spider” which can run on the walls or ceiling:

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy’s “Air Guitar Pro”, uses infrared beams instead of traditional strings, demonstrated at the International Tokyo Toy Show. The toy has a price tag of 2,940 yen:

The Iron-Man figure is developed by Japanese toymaker Hot Toys. Hot Toys announced a while back that they’d be doing a 1/6th figure of Iron-Man but this is the first time they’ve shown it off: