Ahhh...so here's what that Japanese guy was gearing up for by eating all those hamburgers......The World Toilet Organization is sponsoring a Toilet Summit in Beijing, China!


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"Beijing Toilet Summit Is Super Bowl Of The Bathroom
Scholars, Designers, Environmentalists Expected To Take Part

BEIJING -- The WTO is co-sponsoring a meeting in Beijing, and there's not a protester in sight. That's because it's not the World Trade Organization, it's the World Toilet Organization.

Really.

Founder Jack Sim says good toilets are a basic human right.

Hundreds of scholars, toilet designers and environmentalists from 19 countries have dropped in on the three-day Toilet Summit. They're talking technology, lavatory management and the link between toilets and tourism.

As frequent travelers know, a good toilet can be an oasis -- so to speak -- if you get the trots while globe-trotting.

China has a reputation for awful public toilets. But Beijing, host of the 2008 Olympics, has spent $29 million building or renovating 750 public restrooms.

The conference high point will be a tour of those facilities"