Dirt, stains, effluent, material, the load, waste, matter. These are the words my tour guides at Toto's toilet factory and research center in Kyushu used to verbally pirouette around what exactly its ...

Last year, Bennett Friedman, who owns a plumbing showroom in Manhattan called AF New York, took a business trip to Milan. On the morning of his return he faced a choice: stop in the bathroom there or ...

Japan's rich culture is an oddball assortment of things from both the past and the future. Whatever the passionate Japanese produces is definitely way beyond our wildest imagination. Their zeal for ...

They are found in more than two-thirds of Japanese households and visitors to the country have marvelled at their heated seats, posterior shower jets and odour-masking function. But for the company ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

New York's Kitano Hotel is hoping to flush away its competition by equipping its rooms with indulgent Japanese-style toilets. By the end of the month, each of the 149 guest rooms at the Japanese-owned ...

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of toilet paper are used around the world every year, quietly piling up on our shelves and in our bins. But this everyday habit comes with a hidden cost - putting ...

A campaign on Facebook called "WASHLET & amp; JAPAN" supported by TOTO is blowing obliquely upward, and the terrible conspiracy to disseminate it overseas by confusing the subcar culture represented ...

It’s long been a conundrum for visitors to Japan: how do you actually use the toilet? For more than 35 years, the “washlet”—also known in some parts as the “super toilet”—has baffled the unwary ...

NEW YORK - New York's Kitano Hotel is hoping to flush away its competition by equipping its rooms with indulgent Japanese-style toilets. By the end of the month, each of the 149 guest rooms at the ...