This is how much of Japan wakes up. It is called Radio Taiso \u2013 Exercise Radio in English \u2013 a simple yet dynamic way to start the day.<\/p>\n
Every morning at 6.30am, Japanese radio plays music accompanied by basic callisthenics<\/a> instructions. Millions perform the movements in parks, workplaces, schools \u2013 and at home.Radio Taiso has an almost 100-year history. It was formally introduced in 1928, coinciding with the enthronement of Emperor Hirohito<\/a>. The tradition endures because the exercises are suitable for all ages and capabilities, and easily accessible.<\/p>\n We are talking about basic exercise movements: reach to the sky to limber up, twist at the torso, bend at the hips, swing the arms and get the shoulders loose, or jump or run in place.<\/p>\n Exercisers can make it as strenuous as they wish. It is over in just 10 minutes, all done to the rhythm of a soft piano melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is how much of Japan wakes up. It is called Radio Taiso \u2013 Exercise Radio in English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[307783,166708,64,63,11308,149381,188535,1298,307787,538,137,121936,117943,941,307785,307788,305048,307786,307789,40846,10485,307784,305046,307782,307781,1055,1424,23574,66046,305047],"class_list":{"0":"post-635639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-10-minute","9":"tag-active-lifestyle","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-brazil","13":"tag-calisthenics","14":"tag-centenarians","15":"tag-diet","16":"tag-emperor-hirohito","17":"tag-fitness","18":"tag-health","19":"tag-healthcare-system","20":"tag-how-to-age-well","21":"tag-japan","22":"tag-japan-radio-taiso-federation","23":"tag-japanese-postal-ministry","24":"tag-kenji-iguchi","25":"tag-kiba-park","26":"tag-life-expectancies","27":"tag-life-expectancy","28":"tag-longevity","29":"tag-metropolitan-life-insurance-co","30":"tag-mieko-kobayashi","31":"tag-radio-exercise","32":"tag-radio-taiso","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-walking","35":"tag-workout","36":"tag-world-war-ii","37":"tag-yoshiko-nagao"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}