Byline: Tokyo
There is a problem Americans don't have. Or maybe we don't have a big enough sample to recognize the problem.
The big news in Japan is that being a skinny man will increase your risk of cancer death. Being a skinny woman doesn't seem to be a problem. Models should be glad to hear that. See the article for yourself.
The main type of cancer that afflicts Japanese men is stomach cancer. What most shocks Americans and leads them to deny what they hear is another statistic that shows cigarettes don't seem to cause cancer here in Japan and second hand smoke definitely isn't harmful.