As just about any other gaijin living in Japan, I came to love Japanese toilets. They have multiple buttons and functions to play around with, keep your bottom warm during cold days and are generally ...

FUKUOKA -- Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use toilet which measures the amount, hardness and other elements of the user's stools. In what's being called a Japan first, ...

Toto, the beloved Japanese toilet maker, has opened a $60 million museum to celebrate its 100th anniversary. And it's a hit. Toilets are now such a valued part of Japanese culture that Toto, the ...

Toilets are now such a valued part of Japanese culture that Toto, the beloved Japanese brand, has just built a $60 million toilet museum at its home base in Kita-Kyushu. (Photo by: Anna Fifield, The ...

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 ...

I will always remember the first time I walked into a Tokyo bathroom and, with the automatic lift of its lid, a Japanese “smart toilet” happily greeted me. It didn’t end there. Mounted to the wall was ...

A toilet made by Toto Ltd. featuring the "stool scan" function is seen in Fukuoka's Hakata Ward, July 16, 2025. (Mainichi/Hiroshi Hisano) FUKUOKA -- Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August ...