The U.S. arm of Honda Motor Co. will recall an additional 378,758 vehicles in the United States to replace the driver's airbag inflator.

A U.S. congressional committee holding hearings into Toyota Motor Corp.'s massive recalls was postponed Wednesday due to heavy snow in Washington.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will recall about 7,300 Camry cars in the United States to check a possible defect in their power steering hoses.

The United States is formulating a new set of sanctions against Iran in response to that country's move to further enrich uranium.

Core private-sector machinery orders fell by a sharpest-ever seasonally adjusted 26.9 percent in 2009 from the previous year.

The Daily Yomiuri, The Yomiuri Shimbun