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":554499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[190588,110414,9548,99449,149148,616,190592,6647,102,153396,78110,386,190590,190593,189180,190591,190594,14970,6958,190589,189178,190587,190586,56,54,158,55,6899,11518,203,189179],"class_list":["post-554498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-10-minute","tag-active-lifestyle","tag-brazil","tag-calisthenics","tag-centenarians","tag-diet","tag-emperor-hirohito","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthcare-system","tag-how-to-age-well","tag-japan","tag-japan-radio-taiso-federation","tag-japanese-postal-ministry","tag-kenji-iguchi","tag-kiba-park","tag-life-expectancies","tag-life-expectancy","tag-longevity","tag-metropolitan-life-insurance-co","tag-mieko-kobayashi","tag-radio-exercise","tag-radio-taiso","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-walking","tag-workout","tag-world-war-ii","tag-yoshiko-nagao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}