"Master of excrement": Japanese man gives courses in wild defecation!

Tokyo - A Japanese "master of excrement" teaches his students how to do their big business outdoors.

74-year-old Masana Izawa runs his so-called "Poopland" north of Tokyo, a forest area the size of a soccer pitch, where he gives courses in wild kota to dozens of visitors every month.

"We survive by eating other living things. But you can give your poop back to nature so that organisms in the soil can decompose it again," Izawa explains his philosophy to the AFP news agency.

The Japanese man has been practising his unusual routine for a good 50 years and does not put his sausage in the toilet, where it is then flushed down the drain, but instead digs a hole in the bushes, takes a few leaves to wipe it off and then marks the spot with a twig so as not to use the same place again.

He always takes a bottle of water with him to wash his hands in the natural pot. According to Izawa, this is a "sublime act", as it gives "life" back to nature and protects the environment. After all, conventional toilets consume a lot of water and energy.

His "art" goes by the less intestinal-sounding name of "Noguso" - and Izawa even once risked his marriage for it: he canceled a visit to the wonder of the world Machu Picchu during his honeymoon after finding out that you are obliged to use a typical toilet there.