On the toilets here, the flush handles turn either up or down as indicated by the arrows and kanji like so:
Today in our class we learned the kanji for big and little. According to our sensai, big looks like a sumo wrestler and little looks like a fighter jet. There fore, you turn the handle up toward the sumo wrestler for a "big flush" and down toward the fighter jet for a "little flush". They're so clever over here! Craig, I know you'll appreciate this!
Hey those are the same characters for "big" and "little" in Chinese :). A lot of Japanese kanji is really just borrowed/ripped off from Chinese so little did you know you're kind of learning not one but TWO Asian languages :). Bonus!
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