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Why Japan measures workers' waists

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Nothing enforces corporate loyalty quite like a state-mandated tape measure. To curb healthcare costs, the local mandate forces enterprises to measure the waistlines of staff annually, applying brutal financial penalties to any company failing to keep its workers sufficiently slim.

Why Japan measures workers' waists
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