“Oraho no Radio Taiso” is a Tohoku dialect version of the popularly-practiced, warm-up exercise, “Radio Taiso.” It was created by taking the original recording of “Radio Taiso Dai-ichi" (Routine 1) ...

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 ...

A Japanese exercise called Radio Taiso is quick and easy to do. Many residents of the Okinawa blue zone start the day with this low-intensity workout.

In the 1920s, local radio stations in six US cities broadcast 15-minute long exercise routines accompanied by a pianist. These slots were sponsored by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and ...

The exercise that moves Japan Known by heart across generations, this uniquely Japanese routine has a surprising origin in the US. Mitsuo Hagiwara (credit: Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada) ...

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