Lovely spring sunshine in the afternoon can makes people so sleepy especially after lunch in this particular season. Today, I would like to introduce an article, which possibly changes your…

  This is a Japanese warm water washing toilet seat (for Home Use). This product is designed for 220V and the instruction manual is ENGLISH. Japanese super toilets seem to…

  In Japan, some people believe that cleaning toilet is good luck especially with money. It is a famous story that a film director, Takeshi Kitano has cleaned toilet since…

SEGA, a Japanese game company is now testing its new game machine for public bathrooms at bars and game arcades in Tokyo area.     The toilet game machine “Toilets”…

  Toilet tissues are sometimes folded into triangles, like in this photo below. Supposedly this fold signifies that “the cleaning is done”.     One day, a blogger thought that…

  A free iPhone application released last month, “iBenjo” caught quite attentions among Japanese iPhone users. “Benjo” means lavatory, and what it does it making water sounds to cover the…

  “What do you think about climate change?” I asked my ten years old daughter. Since the theme for Blog Action Day 2009 is climate change, I was thinking about…

This is a sequel to “Japanese Unique Toilets Exhibition — Part 1 & 2” <Toilet Paper in the World>   Unique toilet papers from overseas were shown. There are colorful…

  This is sequel to “Japanese Unique Toilets Exhibition — Part 1.” If you haven’t read part 1, please read it first!! <The History of Japanese Toilets> 6.  Meiji period…

Last weekend, I went to TOTO Ltd. Chigasaki factory to see “Unique Toilet Exhibition.” It was very interesting to see the history of Japanese toilets and high-tech toilets, so let…

Japanese super toilets seem to be most advanced in the world. Today, the diffusion rate of super toilet, known as “warm-water cleaning toilet seats,” is 60 % in Japan. A…