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Article: Comfort station: the bidet toilet with seat-warming and other advanced functions is officially the toilet of choice among Japanese. Jitsumori Izuru investigates the rise of the luxury loo.(Facts Of Life)
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- Look Japan
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- December 1, 2003
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THE percentage of Japanese household bathrooms equipped with bidet toilet seats has topped 50% for the first time, according to a survey by the Economic and Social Research Institute in March 2003. Demand has grown steadily since the 1980s, making these toilet seats a sleeper hit for the home appliance industry, a sector that has suffered from the general economic slowdown. The figure (51.7%) for household adoption of bidet toilets is lower than that for personal computers (63.3%), but it is far greater than comparable figures for many popular digital appliances, such as digital cameras (32.0%) and DVD players (25.3%).
Bidet toilet seats were initially developed ...
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