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Toto Ltd. : The World's Largest..."drum roll"..."guitar solo"...Toilet Manufacturer!

Toto Ltd. (TOTO株式会社 Tōtō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 5332) was founded in 1917.

It is a company based in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is the world's largest toilet manufacturer.[1]

The name "Toto" is an abbreviation of the two Japanese words forming its full name, Tōyō Tōki (東洋陶器 Oriental Ceramics?).

The company invented and patented the Washlet.

Washlet (ウォシュレット Woshuretto?) is a registered trademark of the Japanese toilet company Toto, referring to electric toilet seats with water spray feature for washing, which came from the reverse of "let wash".[1][2][3][4]

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