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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Anthropology Volume 2012, Article ID 595614, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/595614 Research Article Anthropometric Method for Determining “Masked Obesity” in the Young Japanese Female Population Yoshiyuki Fukuoka,1, 2 Hatsumi Ueoka,1 Nahoko Koya,2 Yoshihiko Fujisawa,2 and Masaru Ishii3 1 Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Physiology, Faculty of Environmental and Symbiotic Sciences, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Kumamoto 862-8502, Japan 2 Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Doshisha University, 1-3 Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0394, Japan 3 Research Center of Physical Culture, Fukuoka University of Education, Fukuoka 811-4192, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yoshiyuki Fukuoka, yfukuoka@mail.doshisha.ac.jp Received 10 November 2011; Revised 10 January 2012; Accepted 7 March 2012 Academic Editor: Maryna Steyn Copyright © 2012 Yoshiyuki Fukuoka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A specific kind of obesity that occurs in young women who appear thin but who have relatively greater percentage of body fat than is normal for their weight is called “masked obesity.” The definition of masked obesity is nutritionally and anthropometrically clear: body mass index (BMI) 25 kg/m2 and percentage of body fat (%BF) ≥ 30%. However, this definition allowed obesity to be underestimated. Thus, we determined that when mathematically analyzing the relationship between BMI and %BF, the equation b b %BF = aBMI could be applied, where a (i.e., %BF/BMI ), converted by logar