The Mantokuji temple in Japan's central Gumma prefecture was once an asylum for women who wanted to cut marital ties with their husbands, a function now made obsolete by modern divorce laws and family courts.

Now, the temple is a museum chronicling the history of divorce as well as a place to help people get rid of any bad karma, via a piece of paper they drop into latrines.

Visitors are given two options: the white squat toilet for the enkiri, or cutting ties, or the black one for the enmusubi, or tightening ties.

"I severed the bind with obesity" said 69-year-old, tea ceremony instructor Shizue Kurokawa, after flushing her enkiri tag in the white latrine.