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As I mentioned in previously, Japanese summer is very hot and humid. The humidity reaches up to 70~80 %. It is obviously not a comfortable time, but there are many things that I miss about the Japanese summer. When I was little, I used to go to the shrine grounds to do “radio exercises” every early morning (It started 6:30 a.m.). Radio exercises (rajio-taisou), is a form of exercise most Japanese are familiar with. The instructions are synchronized to light piano music. There is an attendance card for rajio-taisou and you get a stamp on it when you come. I didn’t want to miss rajio-taisou because I liked seeing my card filling up with stamps. The music of rajio-taisou makes me nostalgic. It is funny; after all these years my body still remembers the exercises whenever I hear the music.

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