>The weird thing is that what you are describing is a very American washing machine. What I'm used to from Europe looks more like... Absolutely true. Machines

>The weird thing is that what you are describing is a very American washing machine. What I'm used to from Europe looks more like... Absolutely true. Machines in Japan don't resemble his description at all. My machine has a touchscreen with a ridiculous number of options and settings, all printed in Japanese, along with 4 physical buttons (on, off, start/pause, and back). The cheaper machines don't have a touchscreen, but instead a bunch of buttons that basically do what yours does. Knobs don't seem to be a thing here (on washing machines; they are on the fancier microwave ovens though, strangely).