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...More than 60% of Japanese households are now equipped with washlets, and the unit available in the public bathrooms of the Tokyo Midtown pales in comparison to those that grace many Japanese homes and hotels. For just $5,000, Japan's largest toilet maker, Toto, offers the deluxe Neorest 600. It boasts, among other functions, five cleansing modes (front, rear, pulsating, oscillating and soft), a lid that automatically opens and closes, an air purifier, a massage option, an air-drier with adjustable temperature settings and an automatic flush. Most functions can be operated by a wireless remote control linked...
...Diana's Legacy Why do people still love Princess Diana [Sept. 3]? Because she was compassionate, warm and humane. Why are Prince Charles and Camilla unpopular? Because they seem unethical, cold and selfish. Diana left the world an infinitely rewarding message of generosity and kindness. Akikazu Nagatomi, Kunitachi City, Japan...
Akikazu Nagatomi, KUNITACHI CITY, JAPAN...
...think Japan's hard-drinking business culture is as dead as a Betamax, think again. After more than a decade of austerity (not to mention sobriety) during the nation's economic slump, many Japanese companies are thriving--and they're reviving some of the customs that were hallmarks of Japan Inc. during the booming 1980s. Not only are company-sponsored drinkathons back, so too are subsidized dorms for single employees as well as corporate outings and visits to the founder's ancestral grave. "We realized that workplace communication was becoming nonexistent," explains human-resources manager Shinji Matsuyama, whose company, Alps...
...togetherness--called soshikiryoku--that many Japanese corporations are trying to rekindle. Up to a generation ago, college grads entered companies en masse, lived together, drank together, quite often married one another and retired together. This close-knit culture, which was virtually national labor policy, was widely credited for Japan's meteoric rise. But it all ended when the country hit the skids in the 1990s. Threatened by cheap labor and more efficient business models, Japanese companies began adopting American management concepts such as merit-based pay and job competition. "The Japanese equated globalism with not just the American...