Devices that conceal unwanted noises are the next frontier in advanced toilet technology. Would you like some peaceful ...

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 ...

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

Major Japanese toilet maker Toto has created a talking commode. The new Neo model has a robotic lid that moves in time with its voice, which for some reason is male. Neo features in a series of short ...

Dirt, stains, effluent, material, the load, waste, matter. These are the words my tour guides at Toto's toilet factory and research center in Kyushu used to verbally pirouette around what exactly its ...

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 ...