Only 36% of Japan public high schools toilets Western-style: survey

Only an average of 35.8 percent of toilets at prefectural high schools in Japan were Western-style, a survey showed Monday, reflecting a lack of state subsidies and low priority given to modernizing toilets built mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.The proportion of Western-style toilets for prefectural high schools was lower than that for public elementary and junior high schools, which stood at 43.3 percent in an education ministry survey released in November last year.Of around 225,000 toilets at roughly 3,200 prefectural high schools in Japan, about 80,000 were sitting toilets, while 145,000 …READ FULL ARTICLE