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  japanese toilet - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
However, historically, pit toilets were more common, as they were easier to build and also allowed the reuse of the feces as fertilizer — very important in a country where Buddhism and its associated vegetarianism acted to reduce dependence on livestock for food, though seafood has always been an important part of the Japanese diet.
Western-style toilets, including high tech toilets, are now more common in Japanese homes than the traditional squat toilets, though some older apartments retain stickers in the bathroom illustrating the proper way to use a western toilet for urination and defecation.
There are numerous reports of foreigners using a toilet, and randomly pressing buttons on the control panel either out of curiosity or in search for the flushing control, and suddenly to their horror receiving a jet of water directed at their private parts.
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 Japanese Toilet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There also was a button to clean a female's privates (maybe that's why she was giggling) and one to adjust the water pressure.
After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to buy a toilet in Asia that would work in the US, I eventually found that they were just being made available by Toto USA for the American market.
I figure if I save one double roll of toilet paper a week (conservative estimate), figuring in the cost of electricity (average 37 watts per hour) and the cost of the unit, I'll break even in about 16 years.
www.dickandwitta.com /Miscellaneous/japanese_toilet.htm   (0 words)

  
 World Toilet Organization - Perspective: A Study of Japanese Toilets
This is a logical assumption as, when this form of toilet is used in many Asian countries for urinating, the floor area around the hole in the base of the toilet becomes dirty and soiled.
The other ergonomic controversy is the fact that sometimes users, particularly foreigners who do not know how to use the electronic toilets is unable to stop the jet of water and may end up washing their face if they turn around to face the toilet bowl in an attempt to stop the water jet.
Besides the toilet seats itself, there are also features of Japanese toilet that indicate the coming of age of Japanese toilet usage.
www.worldtoilet.org /articles/articles_per_japanesetoilets.htm   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilet Technology - Japan, Asia, Asia Travel Stories, Japan, Japan Travel Stories, Jessica Hampton | BootsnAll ...
There's plenty of used toilet paper, because Chinese plumbing is weak, and instead of flushing the paper, you put it in a small wastebasket next to the "toilet".
I had heard rumors prior to visiting Japan that Japanese toilets included a "flush button" which gave you the sound of flushing without the actual flush, to camouflage other noises that you might be making in the bathroom.
I exited the stall and stood at the sink, observing a rush of excited people into the bathroom (odd, since the Japanese are generally orderly in their entrances and exits) and gradually becoming aware of a high-pitched beeping noise that seemed to grow in volume.
www.bootsnall.com /articles/05-06/japanese-toilet-technology-japan.html   (0 words)

  
 Japanese toilets
This is the style of toilet which is used from Turkey all the way East to Japan, and everywhere in between.
In some toilets, there are even tiles of different color on either side of the toilet which mark where you should put your feet.
Wearing toilet slippers in the house might be disgusting, but there's nothing wrong with watching a man using a urinal while you walk through a public park (in this case in the Hiroshima Peace Park).
www.richard-seaman.com /Travel/Japan/Misc/Toilets   (0 words)

  
 TheJapanesePage.com - Japanese for FREE -- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar
I am knowledgable on the men's toilets only, but aside for a few minor details, I imagine they aren't too different from the ladies'.
The first time you use a Japanese toilet it feels strange, but you get used to it quickly.
But actually a majority of toilets you will use in Japan (except in old buildings and schools) are western style or have the option of a Western style.
www.thejapanesepage.com /culture/toilets.htm   (0 words)

  
 Handicap Toilet at ToiletWarehouse.com: Handicap toilet seat, bathroom products handicap toilet seats, handicap toilet ...
The Japanese toilet is a step ahead of your average toilet—okay, ten steps ahead.
A Japanese toilet from Toto will range in style and features; all are equipped with the most efficient, flushing systems in the industry.
Japanese toilet seats from Toto that include SoftClose technology are built to open and close slowly and softly, avoiding the annoying “toilet seat slam” and occasional injury in children and the elderly.
www.toiletwarehouse.com /Japanese-toilet.html   (0 words)

  
 Japan's High-Tech Toilets
The diplomat speaks Japanese, but he was still baffled by the colorful array of buttons on the complicated keypad on the toilet.
Just as many foreigners had finally mastered the traditional Japanese "squatter" with no seat, they are being confused anew by the latest generation of Japanese toilets -- super-high-tech sit-down models with a control panel that looks like the cockpit of a plane.
Japanese homes are generally so small that the bathroom is often the only place where someone can be alone, he said.
www.theplumber.com /japan.html   (0 words)

  
 Toilets in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current state of the art for Western-style toilets is the bidet toilet, which, as of 2004, are installed in more than half of Japanese households.
During the Jomon period, settlements were built in a horseshoe shape, with a central plaza in the middle and garbage heaps around the settlement.
Often, toilets were constructed over a running stream; one of the first known flushing toilets was found at Akita castle, dating back to the 8th century, with the toilet constructed over a diverted stream.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_toilet   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Masters Get Closer to the Toilet Nirvana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
toilet research is the fact that Japan's population is
The results would be sent from the toilet to a doctor by an
toilet a space for the early discovery of disease."
www.globalaging.org /health/world/toilet.htm   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilets
Public washrooms are usually equipped with Japanese style toilets, but the number of public washrooms with Western style toilets has been increasing especially in tourist areas.
Because toilet paper is sometimes not provided in public washrooms, it is recommended to always carry a small package of tissues with you.
Many modern toilets feature luxury options such as a heated seat, a built-in shower and dryer and an automatic lid opener.
www.japan-guide.com /e/e2003.html   (0 words)

  
 Plumbing information by theplumber.com
In sharp contrast to their receptiveness to the Japanese cameras, autos and Walkmans that have taken the world by storm, few Americans or Europeans seem to covet Japan's super bowls--some of which can cost $4,000.
     Japan's undisputed king of toilets is Toto Ltd., which has noticed the enormous profits ahead in serving Japan's rapidly aging population, although it's moving slower on the medical front.
Unicharm, a sanitary-napkin company, contributed $535,000 in 1994 to craft a solid gold toilet and gold bathroom slippers (the ultra-clean Japanese use different footwear for the john), an exhibit that has wowed the crowds from the start.
www.theplumber.com /japaneseobsession.html   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilet at PerformanceToilets.com: Japanese toilet modern bidet, Japanese toilet seats, toilet Japanese
In addition to being the largest toilet manufacturer in the world, Toto is a leading innovator in the creation of the Japanese modern bidet toilet, which is known as a washlet.
Described as a replacement toilet seat that can be installed on a new or existing Japanese toilet, a washlet is activated by pressing a button on a remote control.
With that said, this popular Japanese toilet is beginning to find its use in the United States.
www.performancetoilets.com /Japanese-toilet.html   (0 words)

  
 Click opera - Japanize your ass!
As someone familiar with both British outdoor toilets (many flats in Aberdeen still had communal stair toilets when I was a student) and the squat toilets in Parisian bars, I'd experienced Western equivalents to Japan's retro toilets.
In fact, three Japanese technologies began to become indispensable to my idea of a "civilised life": the washlet toilet, the denki poto (a thermos kettle which allows you to have continuously boiling water for your green tea) and the vibro-massage chair.
These technologies, familiar fixtures in most Japanese homes, are (like Japanese institutions the love hotel and the sento) the direct result of Japanese ways of thinking about the body, rather than anything specifically technological.
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 BBC NEWS | Business | Japan forges US toilet revolution
Toto wants to replace traditional toilet seats in the US Toto, the Japanese company behind luxury heated toilet seats, is to open a factory in Mexico in a bid to keep up with surging demand in the US.
The Washlet's appearance in a growing number of bathrooms across the US is in essence a return home for the heated toilet seat and bidet technology.
The system was originally created by a company in the US for the elderly and people with disabilities, before the patent was bought by Toto of Japan in the late 1960s.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4662086.stm   (0 words)

  
 Japan: Toilets
With pants and these squat toilets, you're at risk of pissing on your bunched up legs, or depositing change on the floor.
With squat toilets and open robes, you would only have to bed down, definitively collect up the front of your clothes, and let your lower quarters release.
It's not uncommon to see an electric toilet in Japan - my first experience with one was in a hotel that cost only $40 a night (Kimi Ryokan).
www.links.net /vita/trip/japan/toilets   (0 words)

  
 How To Use A Japanese Toilet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Japanese Style toilet is quite different what you are probably used to in your country.
However, if you are not used to the Japanese style, your legs can be tired and it can be trying.
Regardless, since some places(school, train, public toilet, etc) may only have a Japanese style toilet, youfll have to get used to it!!!.
www.choshinet.or.jp /~d2790iye/Toilet.html   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilet Training Videos | MetaFilter
Of note, the anthropomorphizing of the toilet, the weird bits of Engrish thrown in, and the remarkably frank approach to the whole messy business.
Also, if the family lives with or close to an older generation (like with grandparents), the mom is often hounded by say her own mother or her mother-in-law, or maybe even just random older strangers, who remember toilet-training *their* kids at a much earlier age, to get those diapers off.
Personally, I started toilet training my own son when he was a year and a half because my grandmother (my son's great-grandmother) who lives nearby would always be on my case about it.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/52938   (0 words)

  
 Toilets, Toto Toilets, Bidets, Japanese Toilet, Power Flush Toilets
Beautiful designs and superior workmanship are the hallmark of the toilets and bidets available at the Plumbing Express.
If you’re looking for a Japanese toilet, you’ll be happy to learn that we carry a complete line of Toto toilets.
Toto is one of the largest manufacturers of toilets and bidets in the world and nearly all toilets made in Japan are made by Toto.
www.plumbingexpress.com /toiletsbidets.html   (0 words)

  
 Dvorak Uncensored » Toilet Training The Japanese Way — With Videos!
When it comes to talking about bodily functions, the Japanese are pretty open.
But what happens in the toilet, by God, that should never be discussed outside the confines of a bathroom or a doctor’s office.
This is not the way Japanese parents teach toilet training.
www.dvorak.org /blog/?p=6166   (0 words)

  
 Nanotech Toilets Take Off
When it comes to high tech toilets, the Japanese are head and shoulders (and maybe other body parts) above the rest of the world.
Toto, the world's largest single-brand toilet manufacturer, describes its high tech Washlet as "The bathroom accessory that turns your bathroom into an oasis of serenity and comfort." Think automated car wash for your bottom.
Moreover, fully integrated versions can be built into toilets like Toto's ultra high-end Neorest with seats that automatically open and close on approach or exit, a catalytic air deodorizer, cyclone flush system and auto-sensing light flush mode.
www.extremetech.com /article2/0,1558,1820013,00.asp   (0 words)

  
 Serious Games Source: 'Serious Games And The Japanese Toilet'
However, there is a Japanese seat that is particularly fascinating.
Thus, the Japanese toilet is clever, elegant and ecological at the same time.
This Japanese toilet offers an unexpected bonus: its clever design allows people to wash their hands with the water that will fill up the tank.
seriousgamessource.com /features/feature_050206_japanese_toilet.php   (0 words)

  
 The Toilet Museum -- Movement
Oh, what fun a red toilet can be, as you will see in this bizarre little amature film featuring Rob Hicks, Stuart VandenBrink, and a miscellaneous man.
A chicken and a frog show how easy it is to replace a Toto toilet seat in this Japanese toilet seat commercial.
The film, about a dog, a toilet, and the boy who tried to get between them, stars Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, and Kevin Bacon, and was directed by Jay Russell.
www.toiletmuseum.com /movement.html   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilet Revealed
They save on water because what you use to wash your hands in the sink part goes down to be used in the toilet part...smart I think.
They also have ones that have a seperate sink but the pipeline still runs from the sink to the toilet.
Good examples of REAL Japanese apartments (not all prettied up for a photoshoot) and bathrooms in a book called "Tokyo- A Certain Style"- check it out, it's good stuff.
www.apartmenttherapy.com /ny/bathroom/japanese-toilet-revealed-001822   (0 words)

  
 Toto toilets, ameritech bathtubs, shower bases, washbasins and sinks
The quality of our Toto Toilets is unsurpassed....ask any plumber what he thinks of the brand and you will find 9/10 times he advocates Toto Toilets for your home or business.
Custom showers, elegant baths, and luxurious steam rooms are just some of the features that a homeowner has to choose from.
If the TOTO toilet you are inquiring about is not listed on our web site, please call us for pricing, information and availability.
www.thefactoryoutlet.com /toilets   (0 words)

  
 Japanese Toilet Mischief » Netscape.com
How would you feel if you are exposed to air or being spied by a hidden-camera inside the toilet, as you sit on the pot of a public toilet?
Netscape Member Septic is the current king of the hill, but feel free to knock him off his perch and submit some of your own.
Today's video comes from across the Pacific, where the Japanese culture is slightly more "open".
videos.netscape.com /story/2006/08/30/japanese-toilet-mischief   (0 words)

  
 Water Cooler Games - Serious Games and the Japanese Toilet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Serious Games Source, Gamasutra's new sister site, is a welcomed addition to set of online resources for people interested in games with an agenda.
I just published an article for the site, called Serious Games and the Japanese Toilet.
Links to weblogs that reference Serious Games and the Japanese Toilet will be listed here.
www.watercoolergames.org /archives/000552.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Funny Japanese Toilet Seat Commercial, It Lifts, it Spritzes VideoSift
Funny Japanese Toilet Seat Commercial, It Lifts, it Spritzes VideoSift
Funny Japanese Toilet Seat Commercial, It Lifts, it Spritzes
The idea behind this commericial is "tori-kaeru" meaning pull off and change - refering to the toilet seat.
www.videosift.com /story.php?id=941   (0 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Wacky Japanese toilet product ads featuring hygenic plushy creatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Wacky Japanese toilet product ads featuring hygenic plushy creatures
Shown here, screenshot for some sort of disposable toilet seat thingy, which is replaced periodically by dancing penguins.
Or, as Babelfish's auto-engrish explains, "You just exchange automatic washing!" At the bottom of the page, another ad in which a young woman gazes in wonder at an unusually-designed toilet.
www.boingboing.net /2004/09/28/wacky_japanese_toile.html   (0 words)

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