6/20/2009

koji suzuki ‘drop’ – toilet paper novel from japanese cult author
newsbizarre.com — 2009 May 27
A Japanese author famous for his horror stories, including cult Japanese and eventually Hollywood film The Ring, has bizarrely produced a novel to be printed on rolls of toilet paper by manufacturer, Hayashi Paper…
…. is appropriately set in a public restroom. The Drop toilet paper novella takes up about three feet or 90 centimeters of a toilet roll. Koji Suzuki’s "Drop" can be read in just a few minutes, according to manufacturer Hayashi Paper....more…

Hayashi promotes the toilet paper, which will sell for 210 yen or US$2.20 a roll, as "a horror experience in the toilet."
Yep, this Japan toilet tale is named “Drop”—just like the plop of poop. And just like Koji Suzuki’s famous novel/film “RIng” the title is actually English transliterated into the Japanese katakana syllabary as shown below.

The puerile joke here is that the traditional Japanese outhouse (plenty of which still exist within hi-tech Tokyo) is called a botton benjo, literally “dropping poop place” (ボットン便所).