Tokyo transparent toilet’s walls go opaque when door closed

TOKYO (AP) — Now you see them, now you don’t. The walls of two newly installed public toilets in Tokyo are see-through before people enter, but turn opaque when the doors are closed and locked from the inside. These so-called transparent toilets, which opened last month, were designed by award winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for a project organized by the Nippon Foundation. Seventeen public toilets will be redesigned throughout the Shibuya neighborhood with the goal of making