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 ...
Sit back and relax as this week's Bilingual column splashes on the results of Toto's 2016 Toilet Senryu Contest.
Home-security AI cats; talking walls equipped with motion sensors; communal-living apartment blocks that promote harmonious relations; and outdoor living-room spaces powered by solar energy siphoned off hybrid cars — these previews of our future, currently on display at "House Vision 2," sound like science ...
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 ...
Japan's high-tech toilets are nothing new but their growing popularity has prompted the government to use them as a tool to promote tourism and sell the technology abroad. A panel set up under Haruko Arimura, minister in charge of women's empowerment, submitted a report Monday ...
Ever wondered what's with the toilet slippers in Japan? Surely I am not the only foreigner to question whether we need to be entirely reshod before entering the restroom in a Japanese house.
What is the next logical toilet model for Toto? After one has invented a toilet that welcomes you by lifting it's lid automatically when you walk into the bathroom, cuddles you with a heated toilet seat, washes and dries your bum after you've done ...
Asia loves the Washlet. In fact, some people can't leave home without it.
The payout of the BIG soccer lottery promises to be a biggie: ¥600 million to the lucky ticket owner.
