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The new law puts a maximum on citizens’ waist-sizes
A model displays Japanese undergarment maker Wacoal’s mage hit girdle, which has sold 7.2 million similar products for women in past three years during a press conference to announce the new men’s similar underwear “Cross Walker” to tighten up flabby bellies, at a press conference in Tokyo on March 17, 2008. Wacoal said a survey showed 95 percent of Japanese businessmen in their 30s and 40s was the most concerned about the waistline of their physique.