The trend toward replacing squat toilets with Western-style ones is accelerating in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. High-tech toilets equipped with water jets are now standard ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On southwestern Japan's Miyajima island, a short walk from one of the country's most famous ancient temple sites, there's a brand new attraction for tourists - a state-of-the art ...

In public places across Japan, older floor-level toilets still appear with some regularity. They sit low to the ground, set ...

Japan has launched a campaign to convert unpopular Asian-style squat toilets into sit-on "western" models, as the nation prepares to welcome tens of millions of foreign tourists in the run-up to the ...

As a person that just never got used to the "squat" style of toilet... Thank You! Japan already has extremely high grades for its public toilets... sure I know some people might like the "squat" style ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan has launched a campaign to convert unpopular Asian-style squat toilets into sit-on "western" models, as the country prepares to welcome tens of millions of foreign tourists in the ...

As you can infer from its lengthy name, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology has its fingers in a lot of different pies. It turns out that one of those pies is ...