FUKUOKA -- Winners of a Japan toilet poetry contest announced on Oct. 13 have unveiled humorous and cynical sides of people's daily business in the form of senryu -- a three-line Japanese poem ...

KITA-KYUSHU, Japan — If there’s one thing Japan is passionate about, it’s toilets. Potties, loos, restrooms, johns, powder rooms — however you say it, Japan has put a lot of thought into the smallest ...

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 ...

Major Japanese toilet maker Toto has created a talking commode. The new Neo model has a robotic lid that moves in time with its voice, which for some reason is male. Neo features in a series of short ...

Having conquered its home market, the Japanese toilet-maker Toto is selling more bidets in the United States. Toto’s president says not even tariffs will halt its advance. Toto’s showroom in ...