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50 years since its introduction radio taiso, the set of morning warm-up exercises for children and salarymen everywhere, is still going strong.
Throw away Wii Fit! Impress your friends, dazzle your co-workers and disturb your dalmation by learning radio taiso from Japan’s leading workout professionals: “Ninety-nine”:

Phew! Now, steady yourself, take some deep breaths, stretch out those [...]

In what has to be the best news story of the week, a Japanese high school student was accosted by a slow loris pygmy monkey while walking home. Even more intriguingly, the student in question looks remarkably like a species of monkey himself:

The student said: “Firstly, the monkey climbed up onto my back, and after [...]