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Is it true that there is a God in the toilet?

Today I am going to talk about toilets. If you are eating, please read it later.

Toilet with a modern bidet, a button to cover the sound of using the toilet with music, a warm toilet seat in winter. It is well known that toilets with a variety of functions are widespread in Japan.
Do you know that they are also particular about cleaning? When it comes to the standard of cleanliness of toilets, Japan is definitely the best in the world.


Is there a God in the toilet?
First of all, please read these lyrics.

Reference:ハニーは日本人のバイリンガルブログ

There are old people who say that God lives in the toilet.

In Japan, there is a belief that there is a God in everything, and they say that there is a God in the toilet as well.
Not because I believe in it, but I rarely feel uncomfortable in toilets except in inconvenient places or in poorly managed parks.

On the contrary, fashionable restaurants and cafes are decorated with cute toilets and, because of that, my friends and I like to check out their toilets too.

A common saying in Japan.
When a pregnant woman cleans the toilet, a clean child is born.
I think this is a superstition, but I know about three people who tell me this.
Personally, pregnant women have a hard time bending down, so I'd rather let them relax than clean the toilet.

If the breadwinner cleans the toilet, the family's money luck will increase.

This seems to be derived from Chinese Feng Shui.
They may not believe in this superstition, but when 100 CEOs were surveyed, 70% of them said they cleaned the toilets at their companies and their homes themselves.

Reference: https://www.j-cast.com

Companies with dirty toilets will go out of business.
I'm not saying that the company will go under, but I think that the company's performance and structure will show up in the toilet.

The reason for this is that I can imagine this happening if the company's restroom is dirty.

🔸The company doesn't have the finances, time, nor resources to hire a cleaning service or have their employees clean it.
🔸There are employees with bad manners, and there is no system to train them.
🔸Employees are so tired, both physically and mentally, that they cannot think of the next person who will use the restroom.
🔸Management is in a state where they are unaware of the state of the company and its employees.

When you visit the company you are going to work for or the company you are going to do business with, I recommend that you look in the restroom first.

Episodes about the toilets of two great presidents
There is a famous episode of Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, who cleaned the toilets himself to set an example for his employees.

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The next episode is about Soichiro Honda, the founder of the car manufacturer Honda.
In the early days of Honda's establishment, when the company had acquired a factory in Shirako, Saitama Prefecture, and was working to repair it, Soichiro Honda invested a large sum of money to install a state-of-the-art flush toilet, saying, "First we have to build a flush toilet."

The toilet was prioritized within the limited budget. Soichiro Honda wanted to emphasize the necessity of paying attention to the parts that are not visible from the outside or are hidden.

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Maybe the toilet gods reside in the heart of trying to make the place we all use comfortable and beautiful.

What do you think?

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