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Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?
1 week, 2 days ago

Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?

Live Mint  

The past century has been one of relentless innovation. The first is Japan’s “Galapagos syndrome": many goods developed and sold there go no further. The world’s fourth-largest economy is big enough to support all sorts of indigenous products, from phones to toilets. The second difficulty relates to China, which at the end of 2022 yielded 17% of Toto’s sales, but …

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Common freestyles over Toto's 'Africa' at the Aspen Ideas Festival
3 months ago

Common freestyles over Toto's 'Africa' at the Aspen Ideas Festival

NPR  

Common freestyles over Toto's 'Africa' at the Aspen Ideas Festival The Aspen Music School students arrived early at the Zen Garden, a peaceful plot on the campus of the Aspen Ideas Festival. Y'all cool with loopin’?” After some experimentation, they settled on two repeated measures from Toto ’s 1982 soft-rock hit “Africa” while Common’s percussionist Mark Colenburg laid down a …

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How Toto held the line
4 months, 2 weeks ago

How Toto held the line

LA Times  

Steve Lukather has lived in his house overlooking Studio City since 1979 — longer than you’d expect, perhaps, given that he bought the place before his band Toto exploded with its fourth album, 1982’s quadruple-platinum “Toto IV,” which won Grammy Awards for album and record of the year and spawned a chart-topping single in the yearning, sumptuous, still-inescapable “Africa.” “I …

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John Mayer review, Sob Rock: His famous ex-girlfriends might want to reset their home security systems
3 years, 5 months ago

John Mayer review, Sob Rock: His famous ex-girlfriends might want to reset their home security systems

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. John Mayer certainly did when he wrote “Last Train …

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On the India-Bhutan border, an indigenous group faces extinction due to mining pollution
3 years, 7 months ago

On the India-Bhutan border, an indigenous group faces extinction due to mining pollution

Firstpost  

The entire population of one of the world’s smallest indigenous groups, the Toto, live in a village on the India-Bhutan border. But it also fails to fulfil our requirements during the extreme summers.” Above: Reshma Toto “The Totos have been living in Totopara for the past several centuries and worship nature. Anju Toto, 47, who runs the only guest house …

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Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert
5 years, 11 months ago

Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert

CNN  

CNN — Toto’s “Africa” has come home, so to speak, thanks to an installation by an artist who plans to play the song on loop in a Namibian desert – for eternity. “Even though ‘Africa’ by Toto was released 1982 it is still very much present in today’s pop culture and frequently used for memes and even entire Reddit pages …

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It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert
6 years ago

It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert

NPR  

It's Waiting There For You: Toto's 'Africa' Is Playing On Repeat In A Desert Enlarge this image toggle caption Max Siedentopf/Courtesy of the artist Max Siedentopf/Courtesy of the artist From soft-rock smash to karaoke staple to Internet bait, the shelf life of Toto's 1982 smash "Africa" has reached remarkable, unexpected lengths. Perhaps it has finally reached its logical conclusion with …

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