(Adds numbers of vehicles to be recalled in other regions)

Honda Motor Co. (HMC, 7267.TO) said it will recall
another roughly 378,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix potentially faulty airbag systems that are linked to at least one known
fatality and 11 injuries in the U.S.

The expanded recall brings to more than 826,000 vehicles the number of Honda
and Acura models covered by a series of airbag system recalls that began in 2008.

The company said some airbags in
its older vehicles deploy with too much pressure, and send metal fragments flying into the car.

The first stage of
the recall covered fewer than 4,000 vehicles in the U.S. It was later expanded to roughly 443,000 vehicles in July of last
year.

In total, including vehicles sold outside the U.S., Honda had recalled about 510,000 vehicles world-wide to
repair the airbag defect as of last July.

In a separate announcement Wednesday in Tokyo, the car maker said that
the number of cars that it will recall due to this airbag problem totals 437,763 vehicles globally including 378,758 in the
U.S., 41,685 vehicles in Canada, 9,227 in Mexico, 4,042 in Japan, 1,361 in Taiwan and 703 in Australia.

The affected
airbag systems are primarily found in 2001 and 2002 Accords, Civics, Odysseys, CR-Vs and certain Acura models from those years.

John Mendel, American Honda’s executive vice president of sales, said the company’s decision to expand the earlier
recall was driven in part by the current concern over safety issues raised by Toyota Motor Corp.’s (TM)
recent recalls of more than six million vehicles. Toyota now faces questions from lawmakers and regulators about whether it
moved swiftly enough to address reports of problems with sudden acceleration in certain vehicles.

“There’s certainly
a heightened sensitivity right now to anything to do with recalls,” he said. “We were particularly concerned that this not
look like we were trying to duck under the screen.”

(Yoshio Takahashi contributed to this article.)

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