{"id":3282,"date":"2003-07-22T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2003-07-22T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T16:31:15","slug":"be_careful_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What Button You Push"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TOKYO<\/strong> – An American in Tokyo recently entered a restroom in an office building and pressed a button, expecting to hear a recording of rushing water, designed to mask the sounds of nature’s call.<\/p>\n

Instead, a loud siren blared and women rushed to her aid.<\/p>\n

The visitor had confused two of the many high-tech features of the Japanese lavatory. [Mercury News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And to make things even better. One Japanese company is looking to bring the Japanese restroom experience to america. Again from the Mercury news:<\/p>\n

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The company, which logged more than $117 million in 2002 sales in the United States, says now may be prime time to introduce Americans to a cleaner, more intense toilet experience. It’s banking on raised sanitation awareness in the aftermath of health scares like SARS — and the popularity of anything “anti-bacterial” to win over consumers to the combination bidet\/toilets that are common in Japan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More intense? Do I need my toilet experience to be more intense? I’m not sure I want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOKYO – An American in Tokyo recently entered a restroom in an office building and pressed a button, expecting to hear a recording of rushing water, designed to mask the sounds of nature’s call. Instead, a loud siren blared and women rushed to her aid. The visitor had confused two of the many high-tech features […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}