The transport ministry has ordered the nation’s automakers to make further recalls of vehicles fitted with Takata Corp. air bag inflators of the kind being replaced in the United States, ministry officials said Tuesday.
The instruction made by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism could result in a recall of over 5 million units in Japan. This could push the cumulative number of domestic recalls to 20 million.
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