Chinese media pooh-pooh shoppers' embrace of Japanese toilet seats
For hundreds of thousands of Chinese travelers visiting Japan during the Chinese New Year holiday, the top item on their souvenir lists was headed straight for their bottoms. Chinese tourists flooded Japan last week, spending an estimated $ 959 million …
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The case against always leaving the toilet seat down
As it happens, a few different economists have considered this question — and found that, if your priority is minimizing the total amount of toilet-seat moving (and therefore touching) that goes on or making things fair, it's not necessarily the best …
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Japanese 'toilet seat frenzy' prompts calls to buy local
Reports this past week that mainlanders are bringing back toilet seats from Japan in addition to the usual luxury bags and watches underscored a larger shift in Chinese tourist behaviour – overseas trips are turning into regular shopping trips for …
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Chinese media pooh-pooh shoppers' embrace of Japanese toilet seats
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