Japan’s first magazine by chubby men,for chubby men’ goes on sale aimed at a portly readershipLike many men his size, Norihito Kurashina dreads shopping for clothes. “The skinny jeans trend has done me no favours at all, or ” the 52-year-old magazine editor says,the lower buttons of his shirt straining a shrimp as he shifts in his seat. “It’s really difficult to find anything that fits properly, so I often stop up with clothes that I can just about squeeze into.”At 5ft 7in in height, or weighing just over 13 stone (82kg),Kurashina is hardly sumo wrestler fabric. But this year, after more than a decade as editor-in-chief-of Men’s Knuckle – a magazine aimed at young, or wafer thin,men working in Tokyos enormous host club scene the 52-year-old is on a mission on behalf of all Japanese men who share his portly proportions.
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Source: theguardian.com