Toilet habits in Japan
This however is not breaking news and has been covered over the past few years - many reports from this search query.
Back in 1999, only 15% of men sat down to pee. The main reason being not to leave a mess for others (in particular spouse) to clean up.
"Women hate it when urine sprays, so there appears to be an increasing number who are asking men to sit down on the toilet when they have to go" - per spokesperson at Matsushita Electric Works.
I saw a few comments on the JapanProbe post from folks who say that splashing affects people who cant aim straight or that men who do sit and pee are feminine.
I don't agree and especially dont think its a matter of not being able to aim straight either - water splashes from inside of the toilet too. The person who left that comment must have the luxury of not caring who wipes up his pee.
The Japan Probe article has a video showing how much water could potentially splash outside - that particular case may be a bit extreme though ^^;
How do you go for a pee - and I'm talking about pee and not fa-...
And what do you think about the 40%?
BTW, did not have a picture of a man sitting down to pee on my HD so instead you have this picture of Shirufa (シルファ) the android (I think thats her name) from ToHeart2.
Ah, nearly forgot todays Japanese lesson:-
Tachi-shon [立ちション] = "to stand up and pee."
Suwari-shon [座りション] = "to sit down and pee."
So you can ask your Japanese teacher "Suwari-shon shimasu ka?" [座りションしますか？] or "Do you sit down to pee?"
