One of the more civilized things about modern Japan is the public toilet. In particular, the crappers of the newer department stores boast all kinds of automatic soap dispensers and water-jets to eliminate any "not so fresh" feelings you may have. A lot of restrooms also have motion activated flushers on both the urinals and stalls, meaning you will never walk into a booth to take a dump only to find that the previous user has left a nice corpus delicti for your viewing pleasure. My favorite addition so far are these neat seat-sanitizers (hilarious English explanation optional -seriously, who says "WC" in this century?). They dispense a disinfectant, and used in conjunction with a few sheets of bog roll allow one to avoid the horror of sitting down in a puddle of cold piss (or worse, depending on the restroom). These should come standard in men's rooms everywhere.
