Thanks to their plastic polymer components, most diapers take upwards of 500 years to fully decompose. As far as a solution ...

Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan—more from seniors than babies—but a recycling ...

The war in the Middle East is having ripple effects across the Asia Pacific. Some of those are expected, but at least one ...

Panic buying is back in Japan. As the U.S.-Israeli-Iran conflict rattles oil markets, Japanese consumers are stockpiling ...

Japan’s government urged citizens not to panic-buy toilet paper as social media posts suggest people are starting to ...

Activist investor Palliser Capital is championing Toto, the Japanese toilet maker, as a hidden AI gem. Palliser highlights Toto's advanced ceramics, crucial for memory chip manufacturing, contributing ...

A survey in Japan found that 53% of respondents say they use the rear spray function on their bidet toilets almost every time. The results of the survey were announced in January by the Japan Sanitary ...

Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has extensive experience in ceramics design—processes that could also be used to manufacture the next generation of computer chips. Japan’s advanced toilets and ...

The AI boom isn't just lifting chipmakers and Big Tech. In Japan, it's flushing gains into a toilet manufacturer and a seasoning giant. As demand for AI chips surges, investors are piling into ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s largest toilet maker is an “undervalued and overlooked” AI play, according to a UK-based activist ...

The vehicle is equipped with two men’s toilets and two women’s toilets, as well as one for people with particular needs. - Courtesy of the Minami-Awaji city government/The Japan News/ANN SUMOTO, Hyogo ...

Is Japanese manufacturing in the toilet? Absolutely not – though it might be the first place to look to understand how the country’s firms are changing. One of the most surprising stories in corporate ...