{"id":8047,"date":"2010-07-13T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T07:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2010-07-12T21:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T21:35:58","slug":"pants-down-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=8047","title":{"rendered":"Pants Down In Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/images\/toto-wash.jpg\" alt=\"Toto toilets\" width=\"257\" height=\"150\" \/>OK, so this isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous but the image embedded in this post really had me tickled. I speak very little Japanese as a recent encounter with a trade delegation demonstrated, just enough to help oil the wheels of international trade. LOL<\/p>\n<p>So I suppose I really shouldn&#8217;t take the piss, but there you go \u2026 I couldn&#8217;t even resist a pun.<\/p>\n<p>To redress the balance might I just say that Japanese toilets (&#8220;Toire&#8221; ) are some of the most sophisticated in the world with up to 50% of houses being fitted with Woshuretto by the famous Toto of Japan. These bidet lavatories come with a bewildering array of features on top of the normal bidet cleansing functions.<\/p>\n<p>For Japanese business people visiting the UK we must seem almost medieval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous but the image embedded in this post really had me tickled. I speak very little Japanese as a recent encounter with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=8047\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1120,3,35],"tags":[2501,2502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}