Last blog post, I have written about the standardization of pictogram for Japanese toilet, and I have introduced enthusiasm of lavatory and toilet among Japanese people. http://dicethekamikaze.com/blog/japanese-products/frostedglass_lavatory/ 

Many of you might know that the technologies of Japanese sanitary system is the best in the world, and I believe adoption of Western style toilet and washlet is the greatest innovation of postwar period. It is hard to find Japanese style toilets in metropolitan areas, but in countryside, these are still remaining. If you are planning to travel to country side, you need prepare to do your job with Japanese style toilet.

For gentlemen, I am telling you a secret of Japanese style toilet which I found last week at the old school Japanese Izakaya in Hodogaya as the picture below.

The title says “For all the players”

A secret of Japanese style toilet for gentlemen.

there are 5 steps to complete your job.

1. Keep your stance little wider standing like squire.

2. Hold tight your grip with your left hand’s thumb and pointing finger and bend your body a  little forward.

3. Concentrate on the point of your grip and lower abdominal and shot quickly.

4. Don’t wield, be careful with sclaffing.

5. When you finish the hole, zip it up and flush then leave.

It concludes saying

If you execute these, you will be a great player and the greens will be kept clean.

When you encounter the Japanese style toilet, please remember this secret of Japanese style toilet for gentlemen, and you will be praised!!

original source: http://travel.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1039515.html

Japanese Toilets

In my previous post, I described a passion for toilet among Japanese people, and technologies to the toilets. http://dicethekamikaze.com/blog/japanese-products/frostedglass_lavatory/

When you travel in Japan, you will find the toilets in Japan are always clean and high tech. These high tech bidet toilet is called “washlet”, and you can find lots of buttons to operate the toilet as the picture below.

The descriptions are usually only in Japanese, and if you can’t read Japanese, you will be in a huge trouble. Some toilets even don’t have a handle or a button to flush.

Fortunately, on January 17th 2017, Japan sanitary equipment industory association announced that the top 9 companies in the toilet industory including Toto, Lixil, Toshiba, and Panasonic agreed to standardize the pictograms of the controll panels of the toilets. According to the questionnaire for the foreign travelers, many foreign travellers stated the descriptions of toilet were unclear and had a hard time to deal with them. For 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now, Japanese toilet operation pictogram are standardized and they are working for standardizing in internationally.

Japanese toilet operation pictogram

here is the detailed and English translation of standardized pictograms with English translations.

source: http://www.sanitary-net.com/news/news1142

I hope this description and pictogram would provide better experiences to those who visit Japan.

By 2020, Japan sanitary equipment industory association all toilet control panel pictograms will standardize all the pictograms of toilets control panel in the public spaces.