Japan holds toilet design contest

Best toilet seats? More like best seats, period.

A toilet design that's "safe for women"? Imi wakanai.

Sensei258: read paragraph no. 8.

Also, if toilet makers want to sell their washlets, etc., overseas they need to make the controls understandable at a glance to anyone. They are quite confusing unless you take the time to really study them. Automobiles have international symbols and don't use Japanese, toilets should as well. I'm the adventurous type, so I wasn't afraid to push the buttons to find out what they did.

Read the first paragraph. It says toilet, i.e. the thing you sit on. Paragraph 8 talks about poorly designed facilities, i.e. the building. They are two different things.

I remember trying to flush one when visitng a friend. I didn't know which button to push. I pressed the wrong one, the alarm which rang in the cqaretakers office.

"safest for women"? Does it have a device that detects hidden cameras? Or does it spray hentai deterrent when you sit on it?

As long as it has water splashing up my posterior, I'm satisfied

As well as looking for ideas on how to make environmentally friendly toilets for use in natural disasters, the competition is asking for ideas on how to make toilets easier for “foreigners and physically disabled people”.

Probably just subliminal, but says bunch about how Japanese see the world.

i love the local electronic khazis, but the obsession withj toilets is also a bit extreme.....

I wish they would come out with a clear heavy duty plastic toilet. Water pipes etc. would be a welcome for making it easy to clean. Hidden nooks and crannies can grow a lot of dark mold.

I like things clean. You should see my unit shower. The walls are spotless. I use outdoor paint on them which kills mold and mildew. Easy to clean. Clear plastic showers would be great too actually for cleaning would be simplified.

Amazing coincidence! My local police station said they had a theft of all their shower toilets! The latest news is they have nothing to go on...

Its just all such a waste of money and so unnecessary. Just dig up all the flat squat toilets please and replace them with a normal one.

Design a toilet that runs on sea water.... The world is running out of fresh water. Why waste clean drinking water flushing toilets. All coastal cities could use them saving billions of liters of fresh water