Japanese Superstitions/Etiquette

Tu_triky wrote:but it is all good if you stumble around like a drunk salaryman though..... :hehe:

oh good! I'll fit in then!

MonsterZero-65 wrote:

I know in the past Japanese women often flushed the toilet non stop or ran water in the sink to cover any embarising noise. This is less common today but still happens. Some company's came up with features that would create noise. I never heard that called appreciate button before though...

Some toilets spray a perfume and I have a feeling that may be what they are refering too to help cover odor.

yah I heard u can press a button now and u'll have running water sound to cover any embaressing sounds u may make....and I think I heard in Japan, when they say byebye, they stand there and wave to u till u disappear from their sight.....and it's very very rude to make the "tsk" sound in Japan....(which I always do when I'm irritated)

loris wrote:

oh good! I'll fit in then!

yeah, and when you're tired you could always lie down and take a nap.

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What a shock, if they were here. About 1 of out 5 person on the sidewalk is eats a 1$ pizza slice night and day. :sweat:

I think I've read somewhere that there was a toilet (Toto I think) with something that record the sound and play the inverse of this sound so you can't hear anything.

Also received this the other day from the Gadget watch newletter.
Name: Toto Apricot N5A
Category: MP3 toilet seat
Price: 180,600 yen

...That brings us to the N5A, which is Toto's latest and greatest. Packaged with the seat + washlet unit is the "Sound Rimocon," a wall-mounted remote control that offers various buttons for controlling all of the N5A's functions. Toto has integrated an SD card slot in the Sound Rimocon, and it supports the playback of the MP3 format. If that doesn't float your boat, there are 16 classical/healing tracks pre-loaded on the Sound Rimocon, including four original tracks by Toto.

It's important to point out that this isn't the first time Toto has announced MP3-supporting bathroom components. The Sound Rimocon was included with their "NEW Neorest" and "New Z Series" toilets released in April of this year -- but the N5A is a toilet seat that you can retrofit to pretty much any standard toilet.

The features of the N5A don't stop with MP3 playback. The "A" is for "Automatic" -- not only can it automatically open and close the toilet lid, but it will automatically flush as necessary. Now, how about something to detect if you're male or female and automatically put the toilet seat up or down?

More info: http://www.toto.co.jp/company/press/2005/10/25.htm

Tu_triky wrote:

yeah, and when you're tired you could always lie down and take a nap.

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What the... ? :crazy: Did you take this picture?
I'm used to see people sleeping on the bus or subway, but on the seats not on the floor...

tabana wrote:What a shock, if they were here. About 1 of out 5 person on the sidewalk is eats a 1$ pizza slice night and day. :sweat:

I think I've read somewhere that there was a toilet (Toto I think) with something that record the sound and play the inverse of this sound so you can't hear anything.

Also received this the other day from the Gadget watch newletter.
Name: Toto Apricot N5A
Category: MP3 toilet seat
Price: 180,600 yen

...That brings us to the N5A, which is Toto's latest and greatest. Packaged with the seat + washlet unit is the "Sound Rimocon," a wall-mounted remote control that offers various buttons for controlling all of the N5A's functions. Toto has integrated an SD card slot in the Sound Rimocon, and it supports the playback of the MP3 format. If that doesn't float your boat, there are 16 classical/healing tracks pre-loaded on the Sound Rimocon, including four original tracks by Toto.

It's important to point out that this isn't the first time Toto has announced MP3-supporting bathroom components. The Sound Rimocon was included with their "NEW Neorest" and "New Z Series" toilets released in April of this year -- but the N5A is a toilet seat that you can retrofit to pretty much any standard toilet.

The features of the N5A don't stop with MP3 playback. The "A" is for "Automatic" -- not only can it automatically open and close the toilet lid, but it will automatically flush as necessary. Now, how about something to detect if you're male or female and automatically put the toilet seat up or down?

More info: http://www.toto.co.jp/company/press/2005/10/25.htm

i will say this when i was in japan i did appreciate the heated toilet seats in the hotel room in the morning....an appreciated feature.

Tu_triky wrote:
i will say this when i was in japan i did appreciate the heated toilet seats in the hotel room in the morning....an appreciated feature.

Yeah, a must have feature. :thumbsup: Something you can't find here. :puppydog:

tabana wrote:
Yeah, a must have feature. :thumbsup: Something you can't find here. :puppydog:

if you go to the bathroom after me, the seat will be warmed for you.

i promise. :wave:

Yeah, but I'm not sure what's worst. A cold seat or funny smell? ;) :hehe:

tabana wrote:Yeah, but I'm not sure what's worst. A cold seat or funny smell? ;) :hehe:

they have fans too.....

tabana wrote:
Yeah, a must have feature. :thumbsup: Something you can't find here. :puppydog:

You can always buy one made by Toto. And I don't mean the group, Toto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto_(band).

Tu_triky wrote:

they have fans too.....

i wouldn't call them fans, more like admirers of my gaseous abilities.

krim wrote:

i wouldn't call them fans, more like admirers of my gaseous abilities.

oh so gasalicious.

akidd_yo wrote:now i need stickers "my life is off-topic", "i do not know how to do anything on-topic", "actually i am unable to be on-topic". recently i was banned from a specific BBS and my opponent has lost face greatly. i am so sorry. however, please notice, i put the data to a website, and have not "s-pammed the forum's" with these things. probably i extend a section about "learning japanese", and then people can call it "on-topic approved"?

the ominous buttons: public facilities are frequented by people who do not operate the "appreciate button", and in acute cases guess its self-explanatory.

really, probably i make a section about japanese language basics, to put this thread "on-topic", and because "YOU" made so many good replies to it. what about a list of "lucky numbers", and why? 8=wealth...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, down boy.

I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just saying that this thread is off topic and needs to be moved. It's a basic procedure that happens all the time so that we can keep the forum nice and organized.

The reason that this is off topic (and probably should be in the General section) is because this particular section is for learning the Japanese language. There are separate sections for culture threads, just as there are for artistes.

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Tu_triky wrote:oh so gasalicious.

guess local sewers plant people make a life out of it (like rats nourishing from rubbish, something i have observed personally). doing some sim city: it's just one thing most hudge cities have (except third world countries).

that's off topic. at yahoo news they wrote, if some tendencies continiue, north america gets a third world country by 2050. please do not make more contribution about loo's except something really new.

another sim game (lin city): if you remove the shanty towns (of a hudge city), they regenerate, and it ends up with actually more shanty towns than before (it gets worse not better)

another random data piece: the accident quote (sony). in america it jumps around 3 to 6 accidents within 100000 hours, in japan it constantly floats at 0.08 within 100000 hours. don't know if that's correct numbers.

if people 'always flush the loo' and don't make their business calls in the cabins, they refrain from other things as well.

figure out how to make money as fast as possible by playing monopoly tycoon. hopefully that thread does not embarass too much, even if low quality as usual. probably it needs a relocation. however, it does not demand hudge things or complicate political understanding. it does not bug the forum or make it a virtual graffiti wall, because it addresses differences in the daily life between the western world and japan. that's the purpose why i made it up, no pun intended. :doh:

now i add the superstition about PET bottles and cats, and not to eat in the public: various sites contain information japanese people do not perform it at all and consider it rather uncanny. :woot:

krim wrote:

i wouldn't call them fans, more like admirers of my gaseous abilities.

tombstone inscription: his last words (politically correct): please admire my gaseous abilities. :rofl:

please do not take it serious

Wow, look at that.

Apparently I did have the power. :beaten:

Moving...

kokuou wrote:Wow, look at that.

Apparently I did have the power. :beaten:

Moving...

You have all the mod powers in the LJ forum! :D

Sorry for the late acknowlegement. Haven't logged on lately. :sweat:

i'm not so sure if this is the right forum to ask, but i need to ask this question.. i hope this is the right thread :mrgreen:
i wonder if most japanese know that the word ku-no-ichi (female ninja) was said to be taken from the kanji "onna"? also, do most japanese know that the other side of katana's blade is possible to be used for hitting, not cutting? correct me if i'm wrong and sorry if i bother.. i really need to make sure about this :bonk:
thanks, everyone!

Apparently water conservation is not too important.
Or maybe it recycles......... :doh: