1.   A former flight attendant who prizes his independence, he now must share a bedroom and communal bath.

2.   Japanese are among the most scrubbed people on earth, and its army may be the only one that travels with steaming communal baths.

3.   Others just let the rain fall, faces to the heavens, arms outstretched and voices raised as if in a giant communal bath.

4.   Some Japanese are likely to get out of a communal bath when a non-Japanese enters it.

5.   They are sleeping on straw mats on the floor, removing their shoes to enter the inn and bathing in the famous communal baths.

6.   They use a communal bath and kitchen.

7.   A sign in the communal bath features a diagram showing inmates precisely how short their sideburns should be.

8.   The outhouse is in the yard next to the shed where they keep their cows, and the family has to cross the street to use the communal bath.

9.   The wells serve not only as source of drinking water but also as a communal bath both for tribesmen and their water buffaloes, local leaders say.

10.   The people there eat together and use communal baths.