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Our 52-year-old pole dancing reporter shares his tips for achieving your New Year’s exercise goal

Elliot Hale
Jan 9, 2026
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Starting in his 40s and still going strong, Mr. Sato offers realistic tips for anyone trying to shift some extra weight this year.

Japan
(COK • diet • exercise • fitness • health • moving • Mr. Sato • New Year's Resolution • pole dance • pole dancing • SNJO • touching • weight loss)

Our writer loses 6 kilograms (13 pounds) in 1 month with help from these Japanese 7-Eleven foods

Master Blaster
May 25, 2022

A healthy diet and 7-Eleven aren’t often heard in the same breath, but maybe they should be.

Japan
(7-Eleven • carbs • Chikuwa • COK • convenience stores • dieting • diets • food • health • hijiki • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • weight loss)

Five diet-friendly Tokyo restaurant menu/takeout items that helped shrink this pandemic gut

SoraNews24
Mar 22, 2021

Our ramen-loving, curry-craving reporter managed to drop a lot of weight while still satisfying his taste buds.

Japan
(COK • diet • dieting • food • restaurants • SNJO • weight loss • Yuichiro Wasai)

Man sheds half his body weight, looks like a handsome model in just one year

Oona McGee
Aug 29, 2020

Impressive weight loss transforms this man’s body and mind, but it’s his new face that’s blowing everyone away.

Japan
(awesome • body fat • diet • health • makeover • videos • weight • weight loss • weight training)

Adidas Shindo: Lose weight and release stress like a samurai with a wooden Japanese katana

Oona McGee
Jan 8, 2019

Adidas exercise class takes its moves from Japanese samurai.

Japan
(Adidas • aerobics class • exercise • gym • Japanese swords • Katana • weight loss)

Japan’s extra-slim “Cinderella weight” diet target sparks debate online over health concerns

Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2018

Formula works out to 18 percent lighter than Japan Medical Association guidelines, but not everyone thinks it’s a problem.

Japan
(beauty • Cinderella weight • controversy • diet • dieting • health • society • weight • weight loss)

Will P.K. do it this time? One middle-aged man’s genuine attempt at a low-carb diet

Dale Roll
Nov 17, 2017

Find out the first month’s results as our Japanese-language reporter P.K. Sanjun attempts yet another diet.

Japan
(dieting results • diets • health • no-carb • weight loss)

Japanese man religiously followed “9 grooming steps” for three years, netted himself a girlfriend

Koh Ruide
Sep 18, 2017

After undergoing a three year transformation, he advocates going to great lengths to be popular with women.

Japan
(before and after • crossdress • grooming • Japanese Twitter • makeup • personal grooming • weight loss • weight training)

Misleading Japanese weight-loss flyer slims your body along with your room too

Koh Ruide
Aug 20, 2017

They say the world looks different when you’re thinner.

Japan
(advertisement • before and after • flyers • Photoshop • twitter • weight loss)

“Attention, all you pigs!” Japan’s anime-style motivational diet CD minces no words or pork

Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2015

Being overweight can negatively impact your life in a number of ways, but many of them don’t become apparent until after years of a hyper-calorific lifestyle. As such, vague warnings about lowered energy levels and increased medical costs at some indeterminable point in the future, or even a potentially early death, don’t always have enough of a feeling of immediacy to be compelling arguments to eat healthy and exercise.

On the other hand, a better chance at winning the approval of women is almost always a compelling argument, which is why a new motivational CD is being released in Japan with a number of anime and video game voice actresses alternatively offering encouragement to dieters and spitting contempt at the “pigs.”

Japan
(anime • CD • diet • health • weight loss • weird)

It must be love: Korean couple make dramatic body transformations in just five months

Audrey Akcasu
Sep 23, 2015

Want to go from flabby to body builder in five months? Yeah, who doesn’t, right? It may seem to be an impossible feat, but one couple in Korea did it and they are loving life. The couple’s transformation from on-the-chubby-side to bodybuilding not only changed their appearance, but also made them famous. Think it’s too impressive to be real? Check out the photos below!

Korea
(body building • fitness • health • relationships • weight loss)

Lose five kilos in one month with a super easy convenience store diet!

KK Miller
May 18, 2015

Everyone is trying to get in great shape for the summer season and everywhere you look there is a new exercise or diet craze that guarantees quick and easy weight loss in only a month. Most of these are too good to be true, but some of them might just work for you! Introducing the “Chef Lawson Diet,” which involves eating only at the Lawson convenience store for an entire month. Actual user testimony guarantees* you will lose five kilograms (11 pounds) in just one month!

** On second thought, RocketNews24 doesn’t actually guarantee anything.*

Japan
(amazing • convenience stores • diet • Lawson • low-calorie • weight loss)

Warning! This diet-inducing image will gross you out!

Scott R Dixon
Nov 18, 2013

Look, we completely understand how quickly a diet can disappear when things like all-you-can-eat burgers exist in this world. And trying to implement the newest fad diet or tracking down black market diet pills seems to be a full time job for some of us. That is why here at RocketNews24, we have worked hard to find the most shocking, disgusting image that will make you immediately lose your taste for fast food, carbs, sugar, fat and anything else that tastes too good.

Japan
(diet • fat • gross • muscle • tuna • weight loss)

Japanese viewers go wild after TV show introduces mackerel as possible slimming product

Andrew Miller
Aug 8, 2013

It’s not unusual for consumer products to suddenly explode in popularity after being introduced on a particular TV show, but when Japan’s Asahi TV introduced mackerel as a food that can be beneficial in weight loss during its home medicine program “Takeshi no Kenkou Entertainment! Minna no Kenkou Igaku” few coould have expected the overwhelming outcome.

Japan
(Asahi • canned mackerel • twitter • weight loss)

“Hey, fattie!” Hot guys insulting you = quick way to weight loss

Cara Clegg
Jul 29, 2013

If a guy yells “Hey, fattie!” at you, the natural reaction from many girls would be a good slap in the face. But apparently when it comes from the perfect lips of a hot guy, it’s just motivation…

Japan
(app • exercise • ikemen • moe • weight loss)

Chinese Media Reports Korean Kimchi Promotes Weight Loss

John Stuart Translations
Mar 26, 2013

As has been previously reported here, kimchi, the super-spicy fermented cabbage dish from Korea, appears to be one of the world’s healthiest dishes. Now, media sources in China are reporting that this fiery condiment is also beneficial for those seeking to lose a few pounds.

China, Japan, Korea
(calories • diet • health • low-calorie • obesity • weight loss)

Rent Calculated According to Body Weight, Shared Accommodation Facility in Osaka Proves Popular

John Stuart Translations
Mar 16, 2013

Quite common in Western countries, the concept of shared accommodation in Japan is still relatively new. However, according to Oak House, a guest house and apartment operator in Tokyo, such accommodation is gaining in popularity. Fifteen years ago, the company managed about 150 units; today that figure has risen to 2,300. Shunned by some as being inconvenient and a hassle, others are being drawn to added-value properties featuring amenities such as yoga studios and home theater facilities. Oak House said there is a waiting list of 100 people at its most popular location.

Shared accommodation also has the benefit of being cost effective as no key money (a mandatory, nonrefundable payment, typically equivalent to two months’ rent, given to the landlord for the privilege of being able to live in the unit) or security deposit (typically two months’ rent, and though technically refundable, is seldom returned in full as apartment cleaning fees and other expenses are deducted) are required. Additionally, furnishings are provided, something else that is not common in Japan, meaning initial outlays can be kept to a minimum.

With the popularity of this type of housing increasing, companies in Japan are concocting various inducements in an effort to draw in renters.

Japan
(diet • exercise • fitness • incentive • rent • rent reduction • shared accomodation • weight loss)

How Many Calories are Burned with the Click of a Mouse?

John Stuart Translations
Mar 11, 2013

For those whose work has them chained to a desk, concerns about whether or not they are getting enough exercise often creep into their minds.

In Japan, it is estimated that an average adult male should burn about 2,000 calories a day while an adult female should use around 1,700 (numbers vary according to age and build). Even armed with that knowledge, many people still consume more calories than they burn by indulging in snacks between meals and eating excessively late into the night. A lot of desk jockeys are probably wondering what they should do to better their situation.

Well, there might be some good news. The number of calories burnt at the click of a mouse has recently been calculated.
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Global
(calories • desk work • diet • exercise • mouse click • Office Worker • weight loss)

Need Motivation to Lose Weight? How About Cheaper Rent?

Jessicaocheltree
Oct 10, 2012

Anyone who’s ever tried to shed a few pounds knows how hard it can be to stay motivated. Sometimes you just can’t reach down and find the fortitude deep inside to put down the doughnut and pick up your dumbbells without a more immediate payoff.

A recently opened rental property in Osaka has come up with a novel idea to help dieters keep their motivation up: a discount on rent for weight lost.