{"id":62458,"date":"2024-03-10T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/09\/tokyo-toilet-tour-japan-wim-wenders-film-perfect-days"},"modified":"2024-03-10T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:28:12","slug":"tokyo-offers-toilet-tours-amid-flush-of-excitement-over-wim-wenderss-oscar-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62458","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders\u2019s Oscar hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s hi-tech toilets have long fascinated visitors who rave about their heated seats, bidet function, automatic flushing, and even background noises to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2004\/oct\/05\/highereducation.science\">mask the unwelcome sounds<\/a> that can accompany the call of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Now, international interest in the country\u2019s public conveniences is surging thanks to the German director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/wim-wenders\">Wim Wenders<\/a>, whose film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/feb\/25\/perfect-days-review-wim-wenders-koji-yakusho-tokyo-toilet-cleaner\">Perfect Days<\/a><\/em> \u2013 the story of Hirayama (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/feb\/15\/oscar-tipped-god-everything-toilets-koji-yakusho-wim-wenders-perfect-days\">K\u014dji Yakusho<\/a>), a Tokyo toilet cleaner \u2013 is in the reckoning for best international feature at Sunday\u2019s Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/09\/tokyo-toilet-tour-japan-wim-wenders-film-perfect-days\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect DaysJapan\u2019s hi-tech toilets have long fascinated visitors who rave about their heated seats, bidet function, automatic flushing, and even background &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,217,71,69,88,78,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cities","category-culture","category-film","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62459,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions\/62459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}