{"id":3958,"date":"2019-07-20T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/20\/japan-love-mass-radio-exercise-rajio-taiso"},"modified":"2019-07-20T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T11:01:23","slug":"listen-bend-and-stretch-how-japan-fell-in-love-with-exercise-on-the-radio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Listen, bend and stretch: how Japan fell in love with exercise on the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions join in a mass <em>rajio tais\u014d <\/em>workout broadcast daily for nearly 70 years<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne, two, three, four \u2026 five, six, seven, eight \u2026\u201d That is the cue for half a dozen people braving a humid morning at Kamezuka park in Tokyo to bend, stretch, jump, and run on the spot. The group\u2019s personal trainer is a portable radio perched on the top of a children\u2019s slide. A male voice\u2019s simple instructions, issued to a jaunty piano accompaniment, has become a staple of daily life in Japan since the broadcasts, known as <em>rajio tais\u014d<\/em> (radio calisthenics), first hit the airwaves almost a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>The three-minute routine is the perfect way to start the day, says Yukihide Maruyama, a 79-year-old retired businessman who has performed the routine nearly every day for a decade. \u201cThe exercises aren\u2019t that difficult and afterwards you feel like your body has properly woken up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/20\/japan-love-mass-radio-exercise-rajio-taiso\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions join in a mass rajio tais\u014d workout broadcast daily for nearly 70 years\u201cOne, two, three, four \u2026 five, six, seven, eight \u2026\u201d That is the cue for half a dozen people braving a humid morning at Kamezuka park in Tokyo to bend, stretch, jump, and run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,407,408,88,78,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fitness","category-health-wellbeing","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}