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A girl drops a glob of black paint on her hand, tries to wipe it off with a piece of paper and only succeeds in making a mess. “Paper won’t fully clean it,” she explains to the camera, matter-of-factly. “It’s the same with your bottom.”

When a TV commercial for a strange device from Toto Ltd. called the “Washlet” first aired in Japan in 1982, its manufacturer was flooded with angry calls from viewers offended and disgusted by the mere notion of a spray wash replacing toilet paper. But 30 years later, few things are more quintessentially Japanese than the automated bidet, giving the country the reputation for having the sparkliest state-of-the-art toilets, bar none.
Toto, the leading manufacturer of the device, announced Wednesday on its website that it has sold 30 million Washlets since 1980. The Kitakyushu-based company, a 1917 spinoff of the “hygienic porcelain” department of Nihon Toki (now Noritake Co., maker of the Noritake chinaware), virtually single-handedly changed the way a nation conducts its private business when it decided to move from importing American medical toilet equipment in 1964 to manufacturing the apparatus domestically for general use.

 A little Japanese girl is telling the news reporter about her toilet and what her family is thinking about it! Japanese automatic toilets saleing out to at least 72% in Japan by 2009 and people feel like it is weird but will replace toilet paper and make it easier and so the manufacturing is now also making heated sits for the toilets and water that cleans your own bottom!