Why Japanese Toilets So High-Tech?

From the article in one of the famous social news site Digg, Japanese toilets are introduced as most remarkable high-tech toilet in the world. Many comments posted to this article agree with that, however some people don’t understand why Japanese are so enthusiastic to toilets.

I think that one of the reason is that Japanese people are thinking toilet space is not just for egesting wastes. Living in the society, even though privacy is protected, it is not as robust as toilet space. Maybe toilet is a perfect place to isolate from society instantly to refresh mentally and also physiologically to gain power to go back to society. If this is the truth, I can agree that Japanese people pour passion to make toilet comfortable as possible.

Japanese faith to toilets made up a word “Benjo Meshi” meaning “Toilet Meal”. This is a word poking fun at Japanese loving toilet space that they even take meal in the toilet. This word posted to Wikipedia once (it’s deleted now), but being a popular joke like this, toilets might going to be one of the religion believed more than Buddhism.

Although, it is true that Japan is the innovator of the toilets. More than cars, electorics, anime and manga, toilets will be one of the important exporting articles for Japanese economy. Do you believe or not?

I sometime spend time reading in the toilet at my home.  I don’t know why but it is real that I can concentrate in reading. Maybe I do have potential being one of the believer of Toiletism

Spectrum Over the Tank Magazine Rack

Related Links

• http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/02/high-tech-japanese-toilet/
• http://cheeserland.com/2009/01/japanese-toilet/
• http://www.letsjapan.markmode.com/index.php/2008/10/29/hi-tech-solves-quake-toilet-shortage/

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