Reporting from Beijing — For hundreds of thousands of Chinese travelers visiting Japan during the Chinese New Year holiday, the top item on their souvenir lists was headed straight for their bottoms.

“World-class toilet seats are not what Chinese manufacturers aspire to make,” the nationalistic Global Times sniffed on Thursday. The Communist Party paper was reacting to reports that China’s ...

Once an emblem of idiosyncratic novelty, high-tech toilets are now the global gold standard. But pushing back the creative frontier is getting harder ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, which is composed of Japanese companies engaged in the manufacturing of toilets (Headquarters: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

TOKYO—Makers of Japanese toilets said they would standardize the icons on the panels of the country’s high-tech toilet seats to avoid bafflement among foreign tourists. Many toilets in Japan come with ...

NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 20 (UPI) --A pair of Chinese tourists returned a stolen toilet seat to a Japanese hotel with an apology and explanation that they didn't realize it belonged to the facility. A ...

A new museum will open in Japan this week to display how the country’s toilet seats have evolved from classic styles to high-tech tools with air purifiers and auto cleaners. Toto Ltd., Japan’s largest ...