{"id":802,"date":"2015-04-14T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-04-14T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T11:05:38","slug":"young-girls-hospitalized-in-japan-for-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Young girls hospitalized in Japan for obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-803\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-803 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/obesity.jpg\" alt=\"An-Sofie Kesteleyn \" width=\"1000\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/obesity.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/obesity-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/obesity-199x66.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An-Sofie Kesteleyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">For\u00a0<em>Far from Home<\/em>, Belgian photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansofiekesteleyn.be\/\" target=\"_blank\">An-Sofie Kesteleyn\u00a0<\/a>shadows eleven-year-old Yuna, a Japanese girl living in Tsu National Hospital, where she is treated for obesity alongside four other young women.<span id=\"more-97874\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The photographer was drawn to Japan in part for its reputation for healthy living and the recent influx of fast food restaurants into the country. After researching obesity in Japan, she got in touch with the hospital through a Japanese friend, ultimately gaining almost unlimited access to the facility and its patients. Although a language barrier stood between Kesteleyn and her young subjects, she communicated openly with them through gestures and expressions and occasionally referred to her dictionary, which she kept on hand. For some unspoken thread of empathy and understanding, the photographer was pulled most heavily towards soft-spoken Yuna, who spent her days at the hospital mostly alone. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">(by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Posts by Ellyn Kail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/author\/ellyn-ruddick-sunstein\/\" rel=\"author\">Ellyn Kail<\/a>, Author at Feature Shoot)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2015\/04\/photos-show-daily-life-of-a-group-of-young-girls-hospitalized-in-japan-for-obesity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2015\/04\/photos-show-daily-life-of-a-group-of-young-girls-hospitalized-in-japan-for-obesity\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Featureshoot.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0Far from Home, Belgian photographer\u00a0An-Sofie Kesteleyn\u00a0shadows eleven-year-old Yuna, a Japanese girl living in Tsu National Hospital, where she is treated for obesity alongside four other young women. The photographer was drawn to Japan in part for its reputation for healthy living and the recent influx of fast food restaurants into the country. After researching obesity &#8230; <a title=\"Young girls hospitalized in Japan for obesity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=802\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Young girls hospitalized in Japan for obesity\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}