Located in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Fukamachi and Haru-no-Ogawa Parks, the blue and orange toilets appear like beacons. They can be ...

Users can even receive dietary advice based on analysis of their bowel movement. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

These unusual, coloured glass structures allow you to see what’s going on inside—until you enter to use them, and then an ...

A woman demonstrates how to use the "Intelligent Toilet" at a show room in Tokyo. The electronic marvel, which is capable of analysing users' urine, blood and body temperatures, retails for 350,000 to ...

Japan has brought us sushi, karaoke and with origami, even given us a new way to fold paper. Now it’s changing the way we go to the toilet. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of so-called “smart” ...

TOKYO: In Japan, the global leader in high-tech toilet design, the latest restroom marvel should come with a health warning for hypochondriacs – it doubles as a medical lab that can really spoil ...

KITAKYUSHU, Japan – In 1982, a peculiar commercial aired on televisions across Japan. An actress in a pink floral dress and an updo drops paint on her hand and futilely attempts to wipe it off with ...

When commissioned to design public toilets along a popular hiking trail, architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates took inspiration from the majestic mountain view behind them. Ground view of ...

In public places across Japan, older floor-level toilets still appear with some regularity. They sit low to the ground, set into tiled floors, and look unfamiliar to many visitors. What often causes ...