Leading toilet maker Toto Ltd. anticipates a recovery in demand by 2019 after weathering a lull triggered by Malaysia's economic downturn, its local distributor says. Livvy Lam, executive director of W. Atelier Bhd., speaking recently for Toto Malaysia Bhd., said market demand this year is ...
Toto Ltd. on Tuesday launched a high-end model of its Washlet bidet toilet series as a flagship product targeting wealthy individuals and hotels across the globe. The Neorest NX with a domestic sticker price of ¥615,600 ($5,590), the highest among the company's items, features a ...
Toilets with a warm seat and built-in bidet have long been used in Japan, but Japanese companies now have their sights set on popularizing the technology in Europe. Toto Ltd. and Lixil Group Corp. aim to bring about a toilet revolution across the continent, where ...
Dirty, smelly, dark, scary and broken are the five adjectives most commonly used to describe toilets in Japan's public schools. However, various regions have been making efforts in recent years to make school lavatories an inviting place by converting squat-style toilets into Western-style ones, applying ...
Sit back and relax as this week's Bilingual column splashes on the results of Toto's 2016 Toilet Senryu Contest.
Tired of waiting in a long line to use the bathroom? The internet may offer a solution. Major telecommunications carrier KDDI Corp. will launch a service to let people know how many cubicles are occupied through smartphones and computers. Sensors in the cubicles detect when the ...
An association of Japanese toilet makers will unify pictograms on toilets with bidet functions to help foreign visitors use them. The nine companies in the Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association said Tuesday they will use the same eight guide signs for the function buttons on ...
Western-style toilets remain less common than squat toilets at public elementary and junior high schools in Japan despite concerns that Japanese squat toilets are causing many children to delay using them, a national survey released Thursday said. Of the roughly 1.4 million toilets at such ...
When it comes to toilets, Japan presents several paradoxes. On the one hand, public toilets are ubiquitous, easy to access and, for the most part, quite clean. On the other hand, they can also be primitive, or at least to a Western sensibility. Though there ...
A recent analysis of big data by Central Nippon Expressway Co. (NEXCO Central) has revealed that more and more men tend to prefer cubicles over urinals in restrooms. Real-time panels near the entrance of restrooms showed which cubicles are occupied using sensors installed on cubicle ...
Nearly all Japanese have converted to using seated toilets since 1977 when they first overtook the squatting versions. For future growth, Japan's largest toilet—maker Toto Ltd. is looking toward neighboring China. "Just like Japan when I was growing up, not many people owned houses and ...
When the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck, one of the biggest headaches for many areas became how to dispose of waste from toilets that were no longer in service due to power outages, disruptions of water supplies or broken mains. The situation with toilets ...
