Scott Reynolds wrote:
> On 11/28/2003 5:09 AM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
>> Same for the much of the rest of the city or society. It's as if 
>> people with
>> physical disabilities including many elderly, are simply meant to stay at
>> home if they can't manage alone. Whoever came up with the "Japanese 
>> toilet"
>> did not have people with poor balance or weak legs in mind at all, 
>> much less
>> the elderly or handicapped, yet they are so prevalent even today in 
>> public
>> places such as stations in cities. How women in kimono managed, I do not
>> know.
> 
> 
> Many people claim to prefer the squat toilets, you know.
> 
Conformists. Or female.

John W.