When Naoko Ito uses a public bathroom, she cringes in embarrassment at the thought other patrons can hear the sounds coming from her stall.
That's when she turns to the Sound Princess.
Ito, like a rapidly growing number of women here, presses a device installed in public toilets to simulate the sound of water flushing -- and mask the cruder noises of nature.
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