"Please get your children used to using Japanese-style toilets." Not only does the school still have traditional squat ...

All of this diminishes the chances of any foreign tourist encountering the dreaded Gonggongcesuo (public toilet in the oriental style which requires squatting over an open trough) thanks to a ...

A large part of the eastern world uses squatting toilets-- toilets that do not allow you to sit and force you to take a more primal position. So you're probably not gonna go home and remove your ...

One contained a squat toilet, which is a 'hole-in-the-floor' toilet type popular in China, that people squat over before using, while the other bathroom had a bidet toilet. Showing their ...

arguing that the majority of toilets were still traditional Japanese-style squat toilets. "Most people have Western-style sitting toilets in their homes, and these offer greater comfort ...

(Unsplash) A study in Risk Analysis compared squat toilets to bidet-style ones, finding that squat toilets spread more bacteria—2.6 times more S. aureus and 1.4 times more E. coli. The design of ...

One contained a squat toilet and the other a bidet toilet. Scientists measured the emissions of bioaerosols containing S. aureus and E. coli under various flushing conditions and ventilation ...

A Japanese-style squat toilet is seen in a station in Fukuoka Prefecture, in this photo provided by Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu). FUKUOKA -- They may have all but disappeared from newly built ...