Japanese toilet makers warn over flaming bidets

Japanese toilet makers issued a warning to electric bidet users on today, saying at least 105 units have caught fire or sent up smoke in Japan since 1984.

An extensive investigation was ordered by the government after Toto, Japan’s biggest toilet manufacturer, offered to repair 180,000 bidet toilets last month, saying several of them emitted flames in 2006-7 because of faulty wiring.