A building believed to house the oldest toilet in Japan faced its biggest threat in centuries on Monday when a conservation worker accidentally reversed his car into it, according to local officials.

A building believed to house the oldest toilet in Japan faced its biggest threat in centuries on Monday when a conservation worker accidentally reversed his car into it, according to local officials.

Japan's famously high-tech toilets are getting a new upgrade: sound-masking devices designed to cover up the less melodic ...

Five hundred years of history have gone down the drain. Japan’s oldest toilet located inside an ancient temple in Kyoto was damaged when a car accidentally backed into it. The 30-year-old driver, who ...

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Rather than sit on a commode, pondering life's most existential bewilderments, you can now walk among them, enjoying the history of toilets at a museum in Japan. The Telegraph's Hugh Morris reports ...

If there's one thing Japan is passionate about, it's toilets. Potties, loos, restrooms, john, powder room, however you say it, Japan has put a lot of thought into the smallest room of the house. Japan ...

KITA-KYUSHU, Japan — If there’s one thing Japan is passionate about, it’s toilets. Potties, loos, restrooms, johns, powder rooms — however you say it, Japan has put a lot of thought into the smallest ...

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 building believed to house the oldest toilet in Japan faced its biggest threat in centuries on Monday when a conservation worker accidentally reversed his car into it, according to local officials.