From the country who gave us both Harajuku and Ninja Warrior, we now get a new trend.

Are You Metabo?
The New York Times recently introduced us to Japan's aggressive yet motherly new public health mission of reducing the national waistline. All of which is very interesting in a can-you-legislate-health way. But the part that caught my eye was the new nomenclature:

"Before we had to broach the issue with the...