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4 articles tagged #infrastructure.
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Washlet — the Japanese warm-water bidet that quietly became standardWashlet is the warm-water bidet that washes you after — TOTO's invention, now near-universal on Japanese toilets.
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Japanese vending machines — four million quiet little statements about how safe the streets areVending machines on every corner, full of cash, working all night long. The reason that works is the part most foreigners miss.
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Japanese trains — the rail system that runs to the second, in a country where on-time isn't a goal but a baselineJapanese trains run to the second. The interesting part is what an entire society does on top of that assumption.
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Japanese convenience stores — the civic infrastructure that just happens to sell sandwichesJapan's convenience stores aren't really convenience stores — they're the country's everyday public infrastructure, awake at 3 AM, three minutes from anywhere.