Editor’s Note:

(Not surprisingly, our chief correspondent refuses to adhere to management’s directives. While in Tokyo this week, he was instructed to present impressions — with luck, insightful — of one the world’s great cities. Instead, his latest missive relates to toilets and, therefore, in the interest of family values, is being filed as an “Angry Man” screed. Management’s hope is that discriminating readers will not click on the “Angry Man” prompt in the left-hand column of this site and ignore the report altogether. Please be assured another letter of reprimand graces the personnel file.)