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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...