Editing Body mass index (section)

====Japan====
A 2000 study from the Japan Society for the Study of Obesity (JASSO) presents the following table of BMI categories:<ref name="himan-mhlw">{{cite web |url=http://www.mhlw.go.jp/topics/bukyoku/kenkou/seikatu/himan/about.html |title={{as written|肥満って、 どんな状態？}} |trans-title=What is obesity, what kind of state? |work=Obesity Homepage<!--肥満ホームページ--> |publisher=Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare<!--厚生労働省--> |access-date=2013-05-25 |language=ja |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628232937/http://www.mhlw.go.jp/topics/bukyoku/kenkou/seikatu/himan/about.html |archive-date=2013-06-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Shiwaku K, Anuurad E, Enkhmaa B, Nogi A, Kitajima K, Shimono K, Yamane Y, Oyunsuren T | title = Overweight Japanese with body mass indexes of 23.0–24.9 have higher risks for obesity-associated disorders: a comparison of Japanese and Mongolians | journal = International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders | volume = 28 | issue = 1 | pages = 152–158 | date = January 2004 | pmid = 14557832 | doi = 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802486 | s2cid = 287574 | doi-access =  }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kanazawa M, Yoshiike N, Osaka T, Numba Y, Zimmet P, Inoue S | title = Criteria and classification of obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania. | journal = Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition | date = December 2002 | volume = 11 | pages = S732-7 | doi = 10.1046/j.1440-6047.11.s8.19.x | url = https://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/11/s7/S732.pdf }}{{rp| S734}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ BMI in Japan
|-
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| BMI (kg/m<sup>2</sup>){{efn|name="range-precision"}}
|-
! scope="row"| Underweight (Thin)
| < 18.5
|-
! scope="row"| Normal weight
| class="nowrap"| 18.5–24.9
|-
! scope="row"| Obesity (Class 1)
| 25.0–29.9
|-
! scope="row"| Obesity (Class 2)
| 30.0–34.9
|-
! scope="row"| Obesity (Class 3)
| 35.0–39.9
|-
! scope="row"| Obesity (Class 4)
| ≥ 40.0
|}