Notes:
calisthenics [柔軟]体操;
neighborhood 近所，近隣;
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Since the summer vacation started, the children in my neighborhood have been going to the local shrine every morning. Many go with their parents. A lot of senior citizens gather there, too. Everyone gets to the shrine by 6:30 in the morning so that they can do radio calisthenics. Did you know that the first exercises on the radio began in the U.S. in the 1920s? Then people started doing them in Japan. After that, the Americans stopped. That’s why I didn’t know anything about radio calisthenics until I came to Japan. (by Prof.Douglas Jarrell)
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