Finding Covid-19 pandemic scary? Group offers coffins for stress relief

A participant lies inside a mock of coffin with plastic shields to maintain social distancing amid [Photo: Issei Kato]

Finding the pandemic scary? A Japanese group is trying to take people’s minds off COVID-19 - by putting them in coffins surrounded by chainsaw-wielding zombies.

Customers this weekend in Tokyo can lie in a 2-metre (6 1/2-foot) windowed box, listening to a horror story, watching actors perform and getting poked with fake hands and squirted with water.