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All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

Photo taken on June 21, 2025, shows an all-gender restroom equipped with over 30 booths at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

Photo taken on June 21, 2025, shows an all-gender restroom equipped with over 30 booths at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

All-gender restroom at Osaka expo

Photo taken on June 21, 2025, shows an all-gender restroom equipped with over 30 booths at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

CHONGQING, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2024 - Tourists pass a toilet built on an overpass in Chongqing, China, March 9, 2024. A row of toilets was built on an overpass two stories high from the road to ease visitors' toilet access problems.

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A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

CHONGQING, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2024 - Tourists pass a toilet built on an overpass in Chongqing, China, March 9, 2024. A row of toilets was built on an overpass two stories high from the road to ease visitors' toilet access problems.

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A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

CHONGQING, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2024 - Tourists pass a toilet built on an overpass in Chongqing, China, March 9, 2024. A row of toilets was built on an overpass two stories high from the road to ease visitors' toilet access problems.

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A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

A Toilet on An Overpass in Chongqing

CHONGQING, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2024 - Tourists pass a toilet built on an overpass in Chongqing, China, March 9, 2024. A row of toilets was built on an overpass two stories high from the road to ease visitors' toilet access problems.

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-BANDUNG HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY-ZOOM-IN

INDONESIA-JAKARTA-BANDUNG HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY-ZOOM-IN

(231005) -- JAKARTA, Oct. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with a mobile phone on Sept. 4, 2023 shows a restroom of a high-speed electrical multiple unit (EMU) train of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia. As a landmark project of the Belt and Road Initiative and cooperation between China and Indonesia, it shortens the train trip between Jakarta and Bandung from more than three hours to about 40 minutes via this new 142.3-km line. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)

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Kochi Pref.'s restroom certification system

Kochi Pref.'s restroom certification system

KOCHI, Japan - A woman cleans a restroom certified as "Omotenashi restroom", a restroom with high cleanliness and comfort, in Ino Town, Kochi Prefecture, on May 21, 2014. Kochi Prefecture started this system to boost tourism.

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Temporary public restroom for women built for trial use

Temporary public restroom for women built for trial use

TOKYO, Japan - A temporary public restroom designed for women's use during a disaster is ready for trial use in the Miyaginohara Athletic Park in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 10, 2014.

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Temporary public restroom for women built for trial use

Temporary public restroom for women built for trial use

TOKYO, Japan - A temporary public restroom designed for women's use during a disaster, installed for trial use in the Miyaginohara Athletic Park in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is shown to the press on May 10, 2014.

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New E7 shinkansen bullet train

New E7 shinkansen bullet train

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2013, shows a restroom on the new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train, due to debut on the Tokyo-Nagano route in the spring of 2014, when it was unveiled to the press by East Japan Railway Co. at the company's development base in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture.

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New Japanese bullet train model

New Japanese bullet train model

RIFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 22, 2012, shows a restroom on the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) E6 series bullet train, to be called the Super Komachi, which was unveiled to the press the same day at a railway yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The E6 will be inaugurated on the Tokyo-Akita service in March 2013 with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour, linking the two cities in three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service.

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Fashionable restroom in Tokyo

Fashionable restroom in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A woman introduces a luxurious restroom at Meguro Gajoen, a multipurpose event facility in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2010. The restroom, dubbed the ''100 million yen toilet,'' boasts a gorgeous anteroom as well as murals on the ceiling that were transferred from the old facility building built in the early Showa era.

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A student prays Jan. 15 for Hajime Takakubo, professor at Tokyo's Chuo University, who was fatally wounded Jan. 14 in a Korakuen campus restroom in Bunkyo Ward. The suspect is believed to have fled the scene using nearby stairs, investigative sources said.

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A security guard (L) asks a student to show his ID at the main gate of Chuo University's Korakuen Campus in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on the morning of Jan. 15. Security has been tightened following the murder of the university's professor Hajime Takakubo on the campus on Jan. 14. Takakubo was found fatally stabbed in a restroom and the suspect is still at large.

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife (1989)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife (1989)

Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon & Alan Howard Characters: Georgina Spica & Albert Spica Film: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (UK/FR 1989) Director: Peter Greenaway 11 September 1989 Date: 11 September 1989

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HIGN-SPEED BUS

HIGN-SPEED BUS==Date:Feb, 1969, Place:,JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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S. Korean man given 4-year prison term over fire at Yasukuni

S. Korean man given 4-year prison term over fire at Yasukuni

Photo taken Dec. 9, 2015, shows Chon Chang Han, a South Korean man, who has been found guilty of damaging the ceiling of a public restroom at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in November 2015 after setting fire to a gunpowder-filled metal pipe. The Tokyo District Court sentenced the 28-year-old to four years in prison on July 19, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han, a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han (C), a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

S. Korean man arrested over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

Chon Chang Han (C), a 27-year-old South Korean man, is taken to a police cell at the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo from the nearby Kojimachi Police Station on the night of Dec. 9, 2015. Japanese police arrested Chon earlier in the day in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine in the Japanese capital, viewed by neighboring Asian countries as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man nabbed over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

S. Korean man nabbed over suspected bombing at Yasukuni Shrine

A vehicle enters a police station in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2015, carrying a South Korean man in connection with a recent suspected bombing at a public restroom at Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's militarist past by neighboring Asian countries. Chon Chang Han, 27, was arrested on the technical grounds of entering premises for unlawful purposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to build nursery in Tokyo park as part of deregulation

Japan to build nursery in Tokyo park as part of deregulation

Cabinet members hold a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2015, to adopt a set of deregulation measures, including a plan to build a daycare center in a park in Tokyo irrespective of a law limiting the types of structures that can be set up in a park to a restroom, an anti-disaster warehouse and others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fashionable restroom in Tokyo

Fashionable restroom in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A woman introduces a luxurious restroom at Meguro Gajoen, a multipurpose event facility in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2010. The restroom, dubbed the ''100 million yen toilet,'' boasts a gorgeous anteroom as well as murals on the ceiling that were transferred from the old facility building built in the early Showa era. (Kyodo)

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A student prays Jan. 15 for Hajime Takakubo, professor at Tokyo's Chuo University, who was fatally wounded Jan. 14 in a Korakuen campus restroom in Bunkyo Ward. The suspect is believed to have fled the scene using nearby stairs, investigative sources said. (Kyodo)

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Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

Killer may have escaped campus crime scene using stairs

TOKYO, Japan - A security guard (L) asks a student to show his ID at the main gate of Chuo University's Korakuen Campus in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on the morning of Jan. 15. Security has been tightened following the murder of the university's professor Hajime Takakubo on the campus on Jan. 14. Takakubo was found fatally stabbed in a restroom and the suspect is still at large.(Kyodo)

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Portable toilet

Portable toilet

Photo taken in Numata, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2019, shows a portable toilet. Equipped with solar panels, the four-restroom trailer has attracted attention from municipalities around the country for use in times of disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portable toilet

Portable toilet

Photo taken in Numata, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2019, shows a portable toilet. Equipped with solar panels, the four-restroom trailer has attracted attention from municipalities around the country for use in times of disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seibu Railway's new limited express train

Seibu Railway's new limited express train

Photo taken in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Feb. 14, 2019, shows the restroom of Seibu Railway Co.'s new Laview limited express train, set to start operation on March 16. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Don Quijote sets up restroom for LGBT people at flagship store

Don Quijote sets up restroom for LGBT people at flagship store

An "All Gender" restroom for LGBT people is seen on the second floor of the flagship store of discount chain store operator Don Quijote Co. in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping area on May 11, 2017, a day before it will open to customers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Don Quijote sets up restroom for LGBT people at flagship store

Don Quijote sets up restroom for LGBT people at flagship store

An "All Gender" restroom for LGBT people is seen on the second floor of the flagship store of discount chain store operator Don Quijote Co. in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping area on May 11, 2017, a day before it will open to customers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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