It's a design detail that might seem trivial. And yet, all you need to do is travel a little or host a foreign friend at your home to discover that when it comes to toilets, habits vary as much as ...

A few years ago, I was standing with an American friend in a Shanghai office building, waiting for a meeting to start. Suddenly, my friend turned to me with a worried expression on her face and asked ...

Some foreign news outlets took an easier approach — to disregard the “hole. ... or “Benjo no yō ni kitanai kuni,” meaning “countries that are dirty like toilets. ...

SINGAPORE: An exasperated local Reddit user lamented the sorry state of some bathrooms in Singapore, asking why toilets at ...

These are the only four toilets for about 340 nearby residents, and they’ve made a huge difference in people’s lives, says Asavela Mdudi, a 21-year-old janitor wearing faded denim shorts, a ...

Having conquered its home market, the Japanese toilet-maker Toto is selling more bidets in the United States. Toto’s president says not even tariffs will halt its advance.