Toto Ltd.

: The Toto Museum whisks visitors through the history of Japan toilets, and the 950 items on display show how these private rooms and their particular furniture have evolved in Japanese homes, according to Asahi Shimbun. Visitors to the new facility, operated by leading sanitary ware manufacturer Toto Ltd., first view a replica of Japan first Western-style toilet developed in 1914, which is smaller in size than more recent toilet bowls. Douglas Mac Arthur may have sat upon are some of the star attractions at an unusual museum in this Kyushu city. As few Japanese used such ceramic toilets at that time, sales of Toto products were initially sluggish so the company made plates, coffee cups and other tableware, some of which are also exhibited at the museum including a massive dish one meter in diameter. Initially it was known as Toyo Toki Co. when it became independent from its parent company in 1917. Toto started as the sanitary ware department of Nippon Toki Gomei Kaisha , which was established in Aichi Prefecture in 1904. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.