What is a marshmallow girl?
Three Kyodo News reporters -- Toma Mochizuki, Donican Lam and newly joined writer Minori Moriuchi -- discuss an article by Donican on Japan’s plus-size industry and its future amid the spread of artificial intelligence. They look at how the body positivity movement has reshaped Japanese society despite a broader cooling of the discourse, and how AI can be used to support the plus-size industry.
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