The Japanese tech industry has an enshrined position in the hearts and minds of people worldwide, and its track record of ...

In India's polluted northern city of Kanpur, Rajat Ghai has a penchant for Rado watches and Louis Vuitton shoes. Now, as the ...

Here's why you should not wipe your toilet seat with toilet paper. A Japanese toilet maker has issued a public service announcement (PSA), advising users to refrain from wiping their seats with ...

The festival features the best of recent Japanese cinema and is the sole opportunity in Israel to see many of such movies.

Embodying the phrase “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” a public-private partnership has commercialized the ...

Japanese toilets - equipped with music players, automatic flushes, and heated seats - are clearly not afraid of making a splash with their innovative designs. But these cutting edge seats have an ...

TOKYO: A six-square-metre rental flat in Tokyo, described by Japanese netizens as a “giant toilet” because of its “prison-style” layout, has gone viral online, attracting much interest from Chinese ...

(Mainichi/Norihisa Ueda) FUKUOKA -- Though cleaning toilet seats with flushable paper at hand sounds easy and convenient, Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is urging consumers not to do so ...

In an innovative step to protect the environment and declining “paper supplies,” Japan launched the world’s first ...

A survey in Japan conducted by a research team at the ... probably mainly due to consideration of hygiene in and around the toilet, such as trying to avoid getting the walls and floor dirty.” ...

Not the Japanese. Electronic toilets are standard in homes and hotels—and a marvel to visiting Westerners. Toto, by its own estimation the world’s largest maker of bathroom fixtures ...