Japan's high-tech toilets are nothing new but their growing popularity has prompted the government to use them as a tool to promote tourism and sell the technology abroad.
A panel set up under Haruko Arimura, minister in charge of women's empowerment, submitted a report Monday recommending the government use toilets to boost tourism in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"Japan's toilet technology should serve as a perfect tool to spread our culture of omotenashi (hospitality)," the panel said in the report.
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