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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:02 pm
Gozen_Kumi
By the way, I can't say 5'4" is tall for a girl in Japan. I know of a lot girls in Japan that are 5'3" - my height [5'4"/163 cm]. However, last time I checked [in 2000] the country's average for females was 5'2".
I'm 5"2", wear size 5 shoes, weigh 105 lb.s, and wear size nearly A bras~ & I'm American~ I guess I'll do fine in Japan when it comes to clothing. n_n
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:14 pm
I'm size 6.5 in shoes.
Would it be hard to find my shoe size in Japan?
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:45 pm
Kurezi, your Japanese size should be about 22.5. I can't say whether you would find shoes easily or not though.
Anyway, I was curious about my size compared to a Japanese person. There the average for a female is 49.7kg or 50kg. Here I am considered skinny. I'm 5'1'' (or 154.2cm tall) and weigh 112 pounds (roughly 50.8kg). My cup size is barely able to fill an American size A and my waist measures 78cm if I've done it correctly. My shoulders are about 46cm wide. Also, I think my Japanese shoe size would be a 23.5.
What I want to know is if anything about me would be considered 'big', or fat in Japan. The reason behind this is because I am planning on visiting Japan in a year or two and I want to know how difficult it would be to find clothes in my size.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:15 pm
Man, I probably am...I have a BMI of 21.8, show size 8-9...um, yeah. I'm not exactly little and skinny where I live right now, my freaking huge bones don't help either.
What's the biggest shoe size on average that they carry there anyway?
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:15 pm
Tari_Leralonde I think they are so skinny because they all use chopsticks when they eat. When you eat with chopsticks it makes you eat a little slower than usual, and if you eat slow your digestive system has more time to digest the food, so it has mroe time to break down the fats. So eating slow makes you less fat. Plus, their diet. And aren't fat people frowned upon there? Chopsticks doesn't slow a person down....I mean, I eat with chopsticks, and I eat at the same rate as when I eat with forks and spoons. (I'm not Japanese, but Vietnamese) And I'm not sure if fat people are frowned upon there....I mean...they have sumo wrestlers. o_O; But then again, those sumo wrestlers get fat only because of the sport.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:21 pm
Koiyuki For a taste of what they consider skinny, their a-cup means the girl has NO CHEST AT ALL. I can only image how small a skinny person is over there I can't even imagine it. Or maybe, I try not to.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:23 pm
Winrii Rockbell Tari_Leralonde I think they are so skinny because they all use chopsticks when they eat. When you eat with chopsticks it makes you eat a little slower than usual, and if you eat slow your digestive system has more time to digest the food, so it has mroe time to break down the fats. So eating slow makes you less fat. Plus, their diet. And aren't fat people frowned upon there? Chopsticks doesn't slow a person down....I mean, I eat with chopsticks, and I eat at the same rate as when I eat with forks and spoons. (I'm not Japanese, but Vietnamese) And I'm not sure if fat people are frowned upon there....I mean...they have sumo wrestlers. o_O; But then again, those sumo wrestlers get fat only because of the sport. I heard that along with slowing non-natural-chopstick-eaters down, using chopsticks also regulates how big of bites you can take. It's exceedingly hard to pile half as much food onto chopsticks as you could onto a large spoon. Smaller bites mean that you probably won't overeat, because it takes a good while to realize you're full, and smaller bites means you can't eat as much in that while between full and feeling full.
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