The Japanese and the toilets

The Japanese and the toilets

On the occasion of the France Japan Symposium on toilets at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, report on prejudices around toilets in these two countries. The Japanese are very attentive to their toilets and shocked by some French practices. Kobei YAMAMOTO, general secretary of the French Association of Toilets, declares about the "ladies pee": "At us it is inconceivable to pay to relieve oneself". Moreover in Japan, one never sits on a toilet, question of hygiene, while in France the cleanliness of public places remains a myth... Isabelle MONROZIER, author of the book "Where are the toilets?" Recalls that three out of ten motorists stopping at washrooms on highway areas do not flush. She thinks that we "behave in the toilets as when we were children on the potty and that it was Mom who passed behind to clean everything"... On the other hand, the Japanese envy us the sanisette, the most visited monument of the capital!

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Publication date : 18 May 1992