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 ...

You’ve had the conversation a dozen times. Your friend just took their first trip to Japan, and they came back smiling ear-to ...

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Earlier this month, The New York Times published a story headlined "The Cult of the Toto Toilet," which highlighted how obsessed people were with the high-end toilets from the Japanese toilet ...

Whether you’re contemplating a full bathroom remodel or just need to change out an existing toilet, you will need to consider which type and brand of toilet you will install. Toto is a Japanese ...

If you think this smells like a PR stunt, you're right. In an effort to raise awareness about bathroom emissions and water savings, Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has created the Toilet Bike Neo ...

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 ...

KITAKYUSHU, Japan – A toilet bowl used by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a modular bathroom created for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and a prototype warm-water spray device for cleansing those hard-to-reach ...

Yes this is real! Japanese toilet company TOTO just unveiled the ultimate green motorcycle – and it doesn’t run on gasoline or an electric motor. Instead, TOTO’s “Toilet Bike Neo” runs on biogas that ...