TOKYO: The head of an upscale Japanese inn apologised on Tuesday (Feb 28) for only changing the water in its hot-spring bath every six months, allowing bacteria to breed 3,700 times over the standard limit. Local ordinances stipulate a weekly replacement of the water in which guests
TOKYO: The head of an upscale Japanese inn apologised on Tuesday for only changing the water in its hot-spring bath every six months, allowing bacteria to breed 3,700 times over the standard limit.naked together after taking showers, with men and women bathing separately.
The lax measures at Daimaru Besso inn - where Japan's emperor Hirohito once stayed - began around December 2019. At the time, the inn"falsified documents to claim that the chlorine had been properly added," Yamada admitted.
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