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Japanese schoolchildren are some of the healthiest in the world

Children wave national flags during a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.

Fewer than one in five Japanese children is overweight. Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Sean Fleming
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