Japanese Magazines...

you can just avoid those magazines and buy other ones... I've never seen such a magazine before, and I currently live in Kobe. I read a lot of beauty and fashion magazines and even the models aren't as thin as those girls. So I think this is just a very small niche you've found somewhere in Japan, just like you can find pro-anorexic websites in the USA or Europe. Same thing. So please don't start generalising.

Japanese girls are thinner en smaller than western girls but the girls I talk to don't feel fat or feel like they need to lose weight... So again, not all people in Japan are like this.

I'm a western girl and I have a BMI of 27. I don't feel big here (not any different from in Europe). I fit in their clothes perfectly although the dresses are usually too short because I have boobs and am 167cm. The one-size-fits-all or Medium/Large usually fits me. Except for pants and skirts; Japanese girls don't have hips so I don't fit in any of their pants or skirts.

TRIGERRING!!

I'm half-Japanese, half-Korean and I usually avoid gyaru (japanese over-accessorized girls style) magazines, since they include this..







Your thoughts?

They look stick incects and they need to be in hospital to fix their disorders. I suggest you get help too since you have your calories set to 500 and want to be 33kgs. I'm so sad for you. Stop reading rubbish if it's triggering you.

I don't know how people get so small.

Good lord! I would need to walk around Japan with a doctor, cause I'm pretty sure I would break any of those girls if I walked passed them fast enough, let alone if I touched them.

Can I add a little context?

Firstly, this is an advert, not advice given by a magazine. I bought a diet magazine in Japan 10+ years ago, and it was similar then: the magazine promoted a healthy lifestyle while the adverts were all girls at my goal weight trying to get thinner. Back then, though, the goal weights were around 45-49kg, not in the 30kg range., so this illustrates a change for the worse within that time scale.

Secondly, statistically, this is a young people's problem, in the main. Google it, and you will find statistics on how the number of underweight girls has increased.

Finally, while I feel like a mammoth in Japan, statistically, for my age, I'm not:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

My BMI is quite a bit lower than the average Japanese woman my age.

I currently live in Japan and I don't feel out of place at 126lbs. What I notice though is that generally speaking you won't see the same level of obesity as you see in the states.

Statistically, according to that website, I actually weigh less than 50% of the women here. Go figure.

sheesh..way to promote such an unhealthy lifestyle and a long line of Eating disorders.i wonder if the Japanese men really find these models attractive

my husband does. his computer is filled with images of girls like this

My girlfriend is a US Size 3 and she thinks she is "big". She stands next to me, a men's 36, and she just disappears. She is considering losing more weight and her doctor thinks it's a good idea even though her weight is average.

She suffers from anemia and hypertension and her diet is lacking from quite a few different things. I'm not a doctor but I suggested vitamin-rich green veggies and she won't eat them. I have to figure something out.

Weight loss is just the start. You have body modification that goes back to foot binding. That's more than a millennia old. Then there's skin bleaching, hair straightening, muscle stretching so eyes look forward rather than slightly-crossed.

I recently visited in the earthquake-tsunami-powerplant area in the north. Japan isn't all that it's cracked up to be but that's the same anywhere, I suppose.

sheesh..way to promote such an unhealthy lifestyle and a long line of Eating disorders.i wonder if the Japanese men really find these models attractive

my husband does. his computer is filled with images of girls like this

I hope that you are trolling.

What I'm curious about... is that Japanese have the highest life expectancy on the earth but show average weights for women this low...

Just something to think about.

(Just want to say that I am in the boat of *agreeing* with the fact that being rail-thin is unhealthy but curious if I'm wrong to think that...)

I wonder if this will continue to be the case. Also, the majority are not unhealthily skinny, so it is unlikely there is a connection between being super skinny and living longer.

Weight loss is just the start. You have body modification that goes back to foot binding. That's more than a millennia old. Then there's skin bleaching, hair straightening, muscle stretching so eyes look forward rather than slightly-crossed.

Calf and thigh muscles reduction surgeries have also started trending there too.

EDIT: Adjust quote.

I'm half-Japanese, half-Korean and I usually avoid gyaru (japanese over-accessorized girls style) magazines, since they include this..

Your thoughts?

I am the least bit surprised given that the the popolarised notion of beauty in Japan and Korea are girlcentric that gyaru has a home. If the declared 'sweet spot' for females in that region are the ages of 7-9, it is no wonder that grown women are going through body altering procedures to defy it. The desire to emulate a doll isn't solely a Japanese/Korean concept - the Barbie-ites exist too.

With reference to gyaru fashion, i am always more concerned with the dangers associated with using non-prescriptive doll eye contact lenses.