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Turn the call of nature into a call to adventure!

In a lot of ways, Japan is extremely (vô cùng, cực độ, cực kỳ) forthright (trực tính, thẳng thắn) about bowel movements (nhu động ruột). This is, after all, the home country of that classic of children’s literature, Everybody Poops. 100 yen store Daiso has created multiple poo-themed novelty goods (which we, of course, immediately bought), and for a while there was even a Poo Museum.

And yet, Japan is also the country that invented the otohime, or “sound princess.” Not to be confused (nhầm lẫn) with an utahime (“song princess”/era-defining female vocalist), the otohime is a special Japanese toilet feature. When you press the otohime button on the toilet’s control panel, a speaker plays a pre-recorded (ghi âm trước) sound, usually of a softly flowing river, to mask any noise trumpeting from your butthole (lỗ đít) as you drop a load.

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