A nonprofit called Japan Toilet Labo has created a recommendation mark for emergency-use toilets that are compliant with its ...

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Some adolescents get all their news and information from TikTok. My husband gets most of his from “South Park.” Ever since last year when he saw an episode called “Japanese Toilet” extolling the ...

If there is one thing that’s essential to a restroom, it is toilet paper. And Japan could be said to have a comparatively favorable environment in this regard. Toilets here almost never get jammed, ...

Japan is famous for its high-tech, tushie-warming toilets. These are now such a valued part of Japanese culture that there's a $60 million museum devoted to them You can save this article by ...

The usual concerns around a huge international sporting spectacle, like health, safety and infrastructure, are unlikely to pose problems for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games organisers. What might be a ...

Japan has brought us sushi, karaoke and with origami, even given us a new way to fold paper. Now it’s changing the way we go to the toilet. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of so-called “smart” ...

Japanese bathrooms are about to become a little more interactive, thanks to a new smartphone-controlled toilet known as the Satis. Manufactured by Tokyo-based Lixil, this Bluetooth-enabled commode can ...

I will always remember the first time I walked into a Tokyo bathroom and, with the automatic lift of its lid, a Japanese “smart toilet” happily greeted me. It didn’t end there. Mounted to the wall was ...

You wouldn’t expect an award-winning acting role to come from something called the Tokyo Toilet Project, but that’s what happened for veteran Japanese actor Kôji Yakusho. The project, which involved ...