your welcome but from what i read on this guys site, there are actually two kind of japanese toliets, the squat kind as listed above and the "electric toliet" examples of both can be found at this link, which is a nice addition if you ask me to our exploration of japanese poop culture http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/toilets/

Hey, thanks to Trevor for finding the pic of the Japanese toilet.

Hi,
I am trying to get a squat toliet for a friend who needs it for a friend who in a wheelchair and would like to have one...Is there anyone that could let me know how to get one order it or what ever thank you stacy

japan would be a good place to start

I spent about a week in Japan. Stayed at a Holliday Inn Express in Osaka. We traveled to Kyoto and Tokyo too. My experience was that every bathroom I went to had a regular "western" style crapper. Either that, or they had both styles, the sit down and the squatter. I guess some Japanese people like to squat..?

I remember when we were in Kyoto at a park and my dad, brother and I went to the bathroom. They had a urinal and a squatter. Well, my dad didn't want to wait so he just pissed in the squatter while standing up. I thought it was funny. :P

I spent 2 years in Tachekawa in the early 50's while in the service.A friend and I were drinking kinda heavy one night in a bar down what was known as V.D. alley...Friend got sick and threw up in the john and lost a couple false teeth down the "hole"---took about half an hour to get them back up and out---That's a story in itself---All he did was wash them off in a glass of beer and popped them back in his mouth----He WAS drunk---One good thing came of it. The skank that'd latched herself to him left.

toooooooooo much info

I do want to visit Japan someday, but I am afraid of the people that I might meet.

I made a lot of trips to Japan while in the Navy. I must say I was never too drunk to be alert to the possibility to dropping a load in my pants a la PJ. Some places had a vertical floor-to-ceiling pole for us westerners to hang to while squatting.

Some of the restaurants that had western style toilets had something else that took a moment to get used to: toilet tanks capped with a sink. When you flush, the water passes through a faucet for you to wash your hands, and then drains into the tank. That would be useful here in arid Arizona, but I don't think it would catch on.

How come nobody mentioned the benjos? The town of Misawa has these open shallow sewers, capped with short, vented concrete slabs, right under the sidewalks. There's no describing the experience of whiffing a benjo as you step over it to enter a restaurant. But then, the Japanese think their shit doesn't stink.

pooping causes me to have menstual cramps

PJ,
I feel your pain. Many a time I have done it "J-style" and my legs went numb. But once you get the hang of it, you really feel a great sense of emptiness inside.

Happy trails,
L. Wrong
http://ppkindustries.blogspot.com

I experienced the high-tech toilets in Japan recently.
All seemed to have seat warmers and an adjustable bidet. Some have light music piping out as well as recorded flushing sounds for people who dont like to be heard whilst sitting contemplating.
The control panel for the manipulation of all these gizmos which wouldn't look out of place on a A380 Airbus.

lol that is some funny shit literally

I don't get it. Do you straddle the floor portion (R side of pic), or do you stand with your feet behind the taller part (L side of pic) and hang your buns over the edge? And yeah: how would you squat over the floor part and not get poop in your pants unless you took one leg out of your clothing?

I just don't get it.

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I CAN'T go to work today. The voices said to stay home and clean the guns!

I think you squat over the front portion (right) of the toilet GGG.

Good picture by the way.
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A man who farts in church, sits in his own pew.