The amount of clothes it can wash is limited to 400g, so likely (my guess) it was marketed as a solution to washing sensitive items that otherwise would suffer from automatic wash/spin cycles.
I've worked out that 400g is like a bunch of socks, a few T Shirts, a few pairs of intimates, or...
I just recently aquired this washer, and there is very little info online about it. It's going to be shipped in about a month or so's time from Japan, and I am preparing some info on repairing it. I know it will need new hoses, I am unsure about what type of seals it may use.
I do have a...