Luxurious bathrooms full with heated seats and cleaning jets of water are so frequent in Japan they’ve change into virtually synonymous with its tradition. They’re now taking off within the U.S. — thanks in no small half as a consequence of pandemic-induced shortages of bathroom paper.
Japan’s largest bathroom maker Toto Ltd., which launched the Washlet in 1980 as a hi-tech model of the bidet, mentioned gross sales of the machine greater than doubled within the first quarter of 2020 from a yr earlier, and jumped 18% within the first quarter of 2022 from the prior yr. The outlook for additional progress is brilliant, regardless of the “bathroom paper panic” being over, firm govt Shinya Tamura mentioned in an interview.
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