Three toilet stalls were at the center of attention Tuesday in a park in Tachikawa, west Tokyo, as the United Nations tries to raise awareness of the lack of basic sanitation infrastructure in many parts of the world.
The Japan Committee for UNICEF held the event to mark Nov. 19 as World Toilet Day, which the U.N. officially designated in July, by setting up an "invisible toilet" in Showa Kinen Park.
Sandwiched by two normal stalls, the middle room had no lavatory fixtures. Instead, there was only a shallow depression in the soil floor suggesting the shape of a toilet. A message on the wall reads: "Don't you consider having a toilet a given?"