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...Nazis and a plumbing-supply merchant with sidelines in piety and jealous rage lurk there, along with a mastermind whose ends may justify his means but not his perpetual sneer. Youth gangs, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and, yes, some late-model toilet bowls also have their places in a tale whose complexities would devour most actors...
Levy stressed the need to attend to household problems that cause water waste, such as fixing leaky faucets and pipes, limiting toilet use and cutting back on garden watering...
...hardware gets more impressive every day. There are toilets with vinyl seat covers that can rotate after each use, perfect for a country in which 1 out of 5 women refuses to use a Western-style toilet outside the home. For ladies who do not want to waste water but wish to maintain decorum -- according to TOTO's investigations, women flush an average of 2.5 times per visit to drown out potentially embarrassing or offensive noises -- there is the Oto Hime (Sound Princess), which plays a recording of flushing water. "We want to change the toilet from a space that...
Even more sophisticated loos are on the way. TOTO is testing one that analyzes urine and reports blood pressure and heartbeat. For the harried commuter who has everything, the Minato Pharmaceutical Co. is marketing the portable Toilet Pot. It consists of a plastic bag that contains a coagulant and is aimed at victims of Tokyo's often intractable traffic jams. For travelers, a two-story suite of rest rooms called the Charm Station opened last spring in Udatsu-cho on Shikoku Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl...
...Japanese, unlike most Westerners, are not squeamish about discussing toilet habits. Professor Hideo Nishioka, chairman of the 100-member Japan Toilet Association, a private study group, has calculated that Japanese men spend an average of 31.7 seconds in the john compared with 1 minute 33 seconds for women. As if that were not evidence enough of the country's efficiency, Professor Nishioka has another statistic that illustrates Japanese competitiveness: every day, Japan uses enough toilet paper to circle the earth tenfold...