undokai

National Mar 9, 2016

Chiba schools' 'kumitaiso' exercises led to 432 injury cases

Injuries from kumitaiso, a form of physical education in which people use their bodies to express shapes, including human pyramids, numbered 432 cases in the last fiscal year at elementary and junior high schools in Chiba Prefecture, officials said. Of the figure, 112 cases involved ...

Grab your <em>bentō</em>, mat and a prime spot: It's <em>undōkai</em>

Our Lives | LIGHT GIST Sep 25, 2012

Grab your bentō, mat and a prime spot: It's undōkai

by Louise George Kittaka

For the next few weekends all over Japan, mothers will be up at dawn preparing elaborate bentō, while fathers toting plastic mats will set off to school to claim a prime spot (or perhaps vice versa in some households). It's undōkai season! Undōkai is sometimes ...