If you get annoyed just watching Jenny Craig commercials or hearing Richard Simmons whine about the obesity epidemic, you definitely do not want to move to Japan.
The country, which has universal healthcare for all of its citizens, is focusing in on people who are over the age of 40-years-old, forcing them to have their waistlines measured, to see if they are too...er..."expansive." If it is decided that somebody is overweight, by their standards, that individual is commanded to get diet counseling. If they fail to slim down sufficiently, things could get worse.
Certainly, people should strive to improve their health by getting down to a decent weight, but forcing them to do it smacks a bit of "dictatorial control."
The Japanese government defends its Big Brother-like actions by declaring that it has the right to enforce lifestyle choices on folks, especially since they are footing the bill
Although you could reason that this is for the good of fat people in Japan, it could backfire on them, since people typically tend to rebel against being told what they "have" to do.
Get ready for a black market, where calorie-laden goodies are sold to corpulent Japanese with a taste for somethin' naughty!
Charles Out of Charge 
