Why Are Japanese Toilets Are Failing In America?

Above, a modern Japanese toilet.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Tofugu.com has a humorous posting about why Japanese toilets (no, not the old-style squatting kind that are still around) failing in America.  It is on the modern western-style ones.

They start it out with:

Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that they have some pretty advanced technology over there. Anyone who’s gone to the bathroom in Japan knows that they have some pretty awesome toilets. No, I’m not talking about the old school squat toilets (yuck), I’m talking about the Japanese toilets of the future. Toilets that talk to you, wash you, and even warm your bum on a cold morning. Why don’t we have these things in America?

The modern ones are great with bum-washing features (you can even adjust the temperature).  The Hotel Asia Center of Japan in Tokyo (my preferred hotel in Tokyo) has them.

To read the article, go here.