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Japanese Fat Boy Slim! Wanna Stay Fat? Work For Yourself!

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With Japanese obesity regulations coming into effect, how much more can the poor, benighted Japanese salaryman take?

As if it were not enough that a common or garden salaryman had to endure a sexless marriage, a two hour commute on a packed train, ten hours of kow-towing to superiors, a couple of hours of unpaid overtime spent going through the motions of working because the boss is still in the office, an enforced drinking session with colleagues, a two hour commute back home on a train full of fellow drunkards, a wife who prepares supper with a chilly outward show of dutifulness while he smokes a cigarette, watches t.v. and falls asleep on the floor, as if, as I say, all that were not enough, things have just got worse for the Japanese salaryman…

Hey Mr salaryman, the Japanese government has just introduced an intrusive new law that requires you to get your belly fat under control! If the total expanse of your waist cannot be encompassed by 84 cm of the measuring tape you have just three months to get your fat lard butt into shape! Fail again and you will have to go through SIX MONTHS of “health re-education“…

On these measurements, more than half of Japanese salarymen will be considered “overweight”.

And you, Miss Office Lady, don’t think you are exempt, with all your lunchtime restaurant and postprandial coffee and cake binges with your chums! If your belly fat causes the government tape measure to spread around your corpulence to the extent of 88cm, you too will be rounded up and sent to the slimming gulag for a dose of re-education.

Hidoi desu ne!

It seems that the Japanese government has jumped on the latest slimming fad and is putting its credibility on the line by passing an incredibly intrusive piece of legislation even as NEW EVIDENCE published in the British medical journal, The Lancet (huzzah!), suggests that large waistlines are NOT a key predictor of MS, cardio-vascular disease, diabetes or late night cravings…:shock:

The question is, though, what causes someone like a Japanese salaryman to put up with so many intrusions into and claims upon his private life? Surely he would be better off setting up a home based business of his own?

A couple of problems arise here… One is TIME. Having committed himself to the salaryman way of life, finding time away from the company to develop his own projects is exceptionally difficult. The other problem is that, even if a salaryman could discipline himself to focus on building a home based business, he would be faced with the prospect of working in his wife’s domain… Even if the salaryman himself were keen to become a work from home Internet marketer, his wife may thoroughly dislike the idea of having her husband at home all day, intruding into her private domain and social life…

For the office lady, the prospects may be brighter when it comes to working at home on the Internet because she is almost always single, and often lives alone in a rented apartment. If she can be self-motivated, she might well find the time to succeed with an online business while holding down her company job.In Japan today there are plenty of examples of women working at home on the Internet and enjoying an independent, financially healthy life.

The great advantage of working from home on the Internet in Japan is that you are far less bothered by intrusive government legislation that seeks to control the way that people live, usually by taking away or regulating their pleasures.

David Hurley

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