Thursday, October 7, 2004


Yahoo! discovers Oto-hime
posted at 1:13 PM

The weird devices on the walls of women's bathroom stalls in Japan have been around at least since March of 2003, and I believe I saw some in 2001, but Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough has only recently picked up on it.

I kept setting it off by accident in the bathroom of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. What's making that canned flushing noise? I'd wonder, frantically twisting around. Finally I spotted the motion sensor, right next to my left arm. Even after finding it I couldn't help but set it off, so I gave up and let it keep making noise.

At the time, I had no idea what its use was, and I kept wondering if I was messing something up. It was only later that the thought occurred to me that it might be there for privacy.



Comments

What in the HELL is up with Japanese and their fucking bathroom insecurities? :D

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