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This Japanese toilet should make Americans very worried
The Week ^ | April 9, 2014 | Noah Smith

Posted on 04/10/2014 7:16:24 AM PDT by C19fan

I remember about 10 years ago, I was watching a National Geographic show about a hunter-gatherer tribe in Papua New Guinea. The men were running around in loincloths with spears, hunting animals, making offerings to the gods — you know, typical primitive-tribe stuff. But okay, I don't judge... we're all descended from people like that.

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I suspect that the real reason we don't adopt Japanese toilets is the very fact that people are so eager to give reasons not to. We've grown used to the idea that everything good is invented in America. If it wasn't invented here, it must not be worth having, we tell ourselves. It's a toxic combination of "golden age mentality" and national chauvinism — a symptom of "Ming America."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Japan
KEYWORDS: bettermousetrap; japan; japanesetoilets; progress; redesign; seatheat; toilet
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To: Verbosus

You need a Ferguson... the Stradivarius of Toilet Bowls...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwYGLs7Nfe4


21 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: C19fan

I am still trying to figure out the three seashells.


22 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:08 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Beat Lamar! And, if that doesn't work, let's defeat him in the primary.)
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To: C19fan

One can also purchase used panties from a vending machine in Japan.

Just because the Japanese like something doesn’t mean Americans should like it too.


23 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:13 AM PDT by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: C19fan

“What are you talkin’ about, Doc? All the best stuff comes from Japan!” - Marty McFly


24 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:19 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: C19fan
We lived in Japan 1988-2002. One of the things I really liked about Japanese Loos even before they invented those wonderful toilet seats which do everything from wash your butthole to analyze stool samples was a flush handle which flipped to the left for a number one and to the right for a number two. The water came out through the faucet at the top of the loo and allowed you to wash your hands before it got used to rise out the deposit in the bowl.

Very ingenious and time saving as well as water saving. Plus the fact that the loo was located in a separate closet sized room meant that someone else could bathe, wash up or apply make-up at the same time-- a great survival mechanism with three daughters and a wife sharing the facilities.

25 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:33 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Monterrosa-24

we adapted Brit toilet technology quickly and soon had more indoor johns than they did.
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Actually the “Poles” invented the toilet seat.
It took an “Irishman” to put the hole in it.

Japan is now the ‘Flagship’ for toilets?

My first trip to Japan consisted of people basically stopping what they were doing and ‘going’. Benjo ditches were common, running up and down the sides of streets.

Going up to Bangkok Thailand was a thrill as the locals would use the RIVER for everything. Wash Clothes. Water the animals. Head. Brush teeth etc etc etc.

One of the more ‘popular’ spots in Subic Bay, RPI, was the ‘Shit River Bridge’ where the aptly named ‘river’ separating The Naval Base from Olongapo, was the scene of local lads diving into the water(?) to retrieve coins etc.

So, I guess our Neighbors on the ‘other side’ are progressing.


26 posted on 04/10/2014 7:32:44 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: C19fan

Well, Noah Smith’s right... nothing in United States is made in Japan... /s


27 posted on 04/10/2014 7:33:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (When fascism comes it will come..with promises of a better world.The jackboots come later..-Shapiro)
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To: C19fan

“Japanese turnstiles allow you to pay by swiping a card across a scanner as you walk through (you can also swipe those cards to pay at a store). America does not have these things. We have failed to absorb these foreign technologies.”

He’s wrong on these counts, since we have both card scanners on turnstiles and at stores in the area where I live.


28 posted on 04/10/2014 7:34:57 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: null and void

What does one of these fancy toilets do when there’s no power? Does it default to a dumb toilet or crap out entirely?


29 posted on 04/10/2014 7:35:47 AM PDT by null and void (The British declared war on the Tea Party. The Tea Party won! (Thanks mom!))
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To: tnlibertarian

Good. Real good!


30 posted on 04/10/2014 7:35:52 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: C19fan

Yeah. Right. We’re doing something (although barely doing it lately) that the Japanese aren’t even close to doing now.

Reproducing.

Scary long term fertility numbers coming from Japan.


31 posted on 04/10/2014 7:38:23 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Verbosus

Totos are great. Low water use and very rarely need to flush more than once.


32 posted on 04/10/2014 7:40:46 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: Vigilanteman

The more complicated a thing is, the harder it is to clean.


33 posted on 04/10/2014 7:41:49 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: C19fan

34 posted on 04/10/2014 7:42:50 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: C19fan

Now there's a commode.

36 posted on 04/10/2014 7:44:19 AM PDT by McGruff (Want to hurt Mozilla? Don't use Firefox's search bar. That is their money maker.)
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37 posted on 04/10/2014 7:44:44 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: C19fan
When I first went to Japan in the 1960’s their toilets were a hole in the floor. In the fancy hotels and resturants, the hole was in a shallow trough with stone footpads on either side. Not very comfortable for most americans.

The japs could make and sell great cameras, audio equipment and many other great products. These were all for the rich Americans.( I was making $120 am month an an e-2 in the Navy) Most locals could not afford any of these things nor did they want any of this crap which would destroy their culture.( and it did)

I make no excuses about not buying their toilets other than I'm not rich enough nor laxy enough to pay $2,000 for a crapper.

38 posted on 04/10/2014 7:45:04 AM PDT by Big Mack (I love this country. ItÂ’s the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: Boogieman

He’s obviously never been to a MTA station in NYC either. They’ve been using swipey cards there for 20 years or so now.


39 posted on 04/10/2014 7:46:05 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: driftdiver
This American soldier would have been happy to have anywhere to do his business rather than die at the hands of of Japs.
40 posted on 04/10/2014 7:48:45 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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