As Japan plays host to a record influx of tourists, one of the country's more private attractions -- the high-tech toilet -- is becoming a must-have in luxury bathrooms worldwide. With their warm ...

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 ...

Many visitors regard Japan as the gateway to the future. Technologically speaking, the East Asian country is so much more ...

Major league teams will do almost anything to sign a star—private chefs, luxury travel, locker room upgrades—but plumbing? That’s the next level. The story started when, during an early meeting, ...

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry compiled a final proposal for the pictograms to indicate Western and Japanese toilets and bidet toilets. Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the ...

Japan’s leading toilet maker Toto Ltd. is offering free repairs for 180,000 bidet toilets after wiring problems caused several to catch fire, the company said Monday. The electric bidet accessory of ...