Currently, the exercise is practiced at 1,200 locations nationwide (estimated), including local municipalities, educational institutions, and factories. It has also been adopted for warm-up exercises ...

Japan’s custom of radio calisthenics, short exercise routines set to music, first emerged around 90 years ago. It was once common for groups to practice different varieties of rajio taisō in ...

“Rajio taiso”, or radio calisthenics, is a short exercise routine broadcast daily on Japan’s national radio, streamed on YouTube, followed in parks and schools every day – sometimes ...

It's early on a summer morning and schoolchildren have gathered for some rhythmic exercise timed to music coming from the radio.

'I swear there were two competing rajio taisu014d (literally, 'radio exercises') groups in the park this morning.' ...

A growing number of Japanese companies are encouraging exercise breaks, in the hope of keeping employees limber - and productive - for longer, as the nation contends with a shrinking labour pool ...

In the 1920s, local radio stations in six US cities broadcast 15-minute long exercise routines accompanied by a pianist.

Residents urge Hikone Mayor Hiroyuki Wada, right front, to let them continue to do their “radio taiso” morning exercise on the premises of Hikone Castle on May 16 in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture.