TOKYO, Feb 19 (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 ...

Japan has some of the best toilets in Asia but also some of the worst, the no flush ones with a huge whole that forces you to see what others have done before you. Having a choice between squat and ...

TOKYO - 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 run-up ...

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 ...

The signs, which give explanations in Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese, include instructions on how to use squat toilets and how to activate toilet flush sensors. "We hope these stickers help ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...