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FLUSHED: The Unique History Behind Japan's Hi-Tech Toilets

FLUSHED: The Unique History Behind Japan's Hi-Tech Toilets

Update: 2025-10-07
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Hello Seekers!

Welcome to an episode that I've done inn combination with: A). Just getting back from a weeks long vacation in Japan and B). Popular demand for this particular subject matter.

What is that subject matter, you ask?

It's actually about one of my favorite things in Japan - their toilets! Specifically, their high-tech Toto ones.

Because the Japanese didn't just re-invent the toilet into something spectcacular, they actually turned it into a cultural icon!

Today on the Occulture Shock podcast, we're talking about "night soil" and its ties to farming, French courtesans with their first bidets and how Japan took that tech and turned it into a point of pride.

Thanks for getting weird with us!

-Jessica

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Enjoy the show!

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FLUSHED: The Unique History Behind Japan's Hi-Tech Toilets

FLUSHED: The Unique History Behind Japan's Hi-Tech Toilets

Jessica Chobot