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— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

the tokyo toilet

THE SMALLEST ARCHITECTURE by KOJI YANAI The public bathroom is the smallest architectural unit in urban spaces. Although Japan is renowned for its obsession with cleanliness, pristine streets, and sanitized urban environments, public toilets in central Tokyo often used to be unsafe, dangerous for women, and inaccessible to people with disabilities. Recognizing this problem and […]

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