Japan is going wild for luxury toilet paper, even at $12 per roll

CBS News ^ | September 20, 2019 | Lucy Craft

[2ndDivisionVet]

No word yet from Venezuela.

[kosciusko51]

Meanwhile, Report: North Koreans Fight over Each Other’s Excrement to Meet Human Fertilizer Quota.

[NormsRevenge]

I hope that it is double ply for that price.

They should make a killing with the Olympics next year and beyond.

[treetopsandroofs]

Perhaps they're buying Obamarolls at $11.95 on Amazon.

[Army Air Corps]

Al Bundy could weigh-in on this.
Also, George will need a few rolls in his private handicapped bathroom.

[Ken H]

Wonder what Joe Buck thinks, lol!

[Michael.SF.]

I use to stay regularly at a specific hotel in Victoria, B.C. It was purchased by a Japanese company and remodeled. This was one of the changes:

I really did not want to figure out all of the features of that bad boy. All I really wanted to do was my business.

[Dick Bachert]

Been all the rage here in Washington for decades!

[Oldexpat]

In our remodel we prewired for these toilets but didn’t install them.

[Vigilanteman]

It is an interesting article but, like all press about Japan, it is wildly exaggerated and tells only part of the story.

They will use these for gifts, not use it themselves.

When I worked in Tokyo, it was widely reported that restaurant orange juice was $18 per glass in some places. The truth: Your average restaurant will charge 300 yen (about $2.70), not so different than the same quality restaurant stateside.

The origin of the $18 juice was 1,800 yen per glass (really about $16.10 at current exchange rates) charged for a conference table at the main lobby of the Imperial Hotel in downtown Tokyo.

The Imperial is conveniently located to many government and business offices and people understand the expensive juice is actually a rental of a prime conference or meeting area so either (a)a visitor on business doesn't have to stray far from the posh Imperial or (b)their local Japanese colleague doesn't have to take them to some dingy little conference room at their business.

[skinndogNN]

Just from my experience, electricity and water do not work well together.

[EvilCapitalist]

I bought 3 rolls of that for my Dad for Father’s day several years ago.

[Scrambler Bob]

Where are the Silkworms when you need them.

Hmmmmm. Luxurious, soft, ...

[simpson96]

It’s Japan.

[Psalm 73]

"The country where electronically controlled, heated...high-tech toilets..."

Took me a week to figure out how to work all of the controls. I mean other than the flushy thing.

[TangoLimaSierra]

In our remodel we prewired for these toilets but didn’t install them.

Takes some getting used to. I almost took mine out at first but figured I'd give it a week.
Now I've had it 2 years and I love it.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Just from my experience, electricity and water do not work well together.

So you pump your water by hand or...?

[TonyM]

Being from Tennessee originally I find anything other than a stick or handful of leaves as pretentious.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Corn cobs or old Sears/Monkey Ward catalogue pages.

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