Being FAT is now illegal in Japan.

hahaha is this true? if "Being FAT is now illegal in Japan" so the SUMU re-sling will gone also?

I think overweight is a huge problem, a huge health problem and financial problem in more and more problems. Biggest problem is all the fast food and the change of habits if it comes to food. What one culture/group can digest makes the others fat. There are many countries who do fight this problem. Hungary has a new law (called already potatoe chips tax). They raised the prices of: sugar, salt and everything where you find sugar and salt in (which includes also all the fastfood...) + after that raised the tax you have to pay with some extra % as well. Not something to be crazy about if you live in a part of the country where you are still making our own food and save it in salt-water etc. Which many people still do over there.

Hard to believe it. Although it seems to be good as it will push people to pay attention to their health. But sometimes I think it is not so fair for everybody to be thin. Some people are just born to be fatter than others. And some people are plus size because of a certain disease. Besides, actually Japanese diet is good and healthy. It is not so necessary to have such kind of rule. I love China

not being sure of how fat that is, id still say, its discriminatory. that is if it was here where theres no nationalized health care system. but if they have that there, i guess they have a certain right.

I think it's a stupid idea. I mean it will promote health. But still this is an act against human rights. This would be considered discrimination. I get that the governments is worried but they should reduce obesity with free programs or other similar things.

this is discrimination. okay they're concern about their people's health. But what if you are suffering from obesity and no matter how you tried to lose weight, you just can't?

Hi... This is a nice idea... It'll at least keep them fit... Haha... I think all the governments should implement this...

Hi nanajanet, my belly is 36",chest 44", height is 5'10", and weight is 73kg. Then you can say I'm fit. I am in fifties. I have not to pay any fine. But in my country none bother about health. Japanese are very health conscious and that should be.

Actually I like this. I myself am concerned for us being overweight in Canada/US/UK, and there's a huge strain on people's health and the gov't healthcare system. I do agree that the fast foods and preserved foods are to blamed, and this is precisely one reason why I'm starting to cook and eat the old fashioned way. I certainly think it's a step in the right direction, and I wish Canada would do something like this as well.

I also believe that japan government is still lenient as to what waistline is still considered not overweight. Weee, i am still way below the overweight waist, if i were in Japan. This move of Japan is a nice one. at least, the people will now pursue healthy living so as not to get overweight. I wish they could implement that too here in the Philippines. If it is, a lot of companies will be fined , consequently will not want new hires with waist of 35 and above.

To be honest it should be a global law, else mother nature will do her own work anyway. I remember an experiment about this done with antelopes somewhere in Indonesia. 25 members were transported on an island where they had plenty of food and no predators. In a few years the population went to 150 fast and then antelopes started dying at an earlier age and when they analyzed them they couldn't find anything like a disease. The only thing they could find was either undeveloped brain cells (retarded members), overdeveloped and aged brain cells (stressed members), overweight lazy members. When the antelopes didn't have any reason to move, no predator, food at discretion they started to "go crazy". After another few years though the population went down to about 75 and stayed that way further. The scientists were surprised that somehow the species controlled itself. So as we are now, we don't move, we're not afraid of anything, we don't have any real predators, we have food under our nose, we're gonna be either stressed, retarded or overweight. I think this law is a kind of encouraging of the natural law of surviving. If we encourage acceptance and helping of those weak individuals, well, it might sound harsh but we will only get more and more weak individuals. I don't wanna seem like I'm encouraging discrimination, but it's a proven direction we're going along with. We're just gonna be so many we won't have enough space on earth and more than half of us will die young or have an awful life due to those 3 major issues, among others. Discrimination is bad for a certain individual but if we think globally and to the future it's what nature wants, it's the law of the jungle, the strong survive, the weak strive, the weakest die. If we keep being stubborn and protect the weak, nature will act for us anyway one day and we'll call it an epidemic then. History has proven this. Laws for health and fortifying the population should be applied more and more.

OMG, this is racist. I cannot believe that in that country where SUMO wrestling is considered as a sport will illegalized being fat. I think their government should rethink this as this is against human rights. Being a UN member nation, the UN council should do something about it.