(Bloomberg) — Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. recalledalmost 3 million vehicles to repair flaws in Takata Corp. air bags,adding to a call back by Toyota Motor Corp. earlier this month.

Honda's announcement covers 2.03 million vehicles, including theFit compact and CR-V sport utility vehicle, according to AkemiAndo, a spokeswoman for the Tokyo-based carmaker. About 755,000 ofNissan's cars need to be fixed worldwide, said Chris Keeffe, aspokesman for the automaker.

Japan's three biggest carmakers have called back more than 5million vehicles this month because of air bags. The announcementscome as scrutiny of potential safety flaws rises in the autoindustry, with General Motors Co. facing investigations for takingyears to recall millions of vehicles for faulty ignitionswitches.

“We expected there would be more recalls of this size from othercarmakers,” Koji Endo, an analyst at Advanced Research Japan, saidby phone.

The air-bag flaws were related to inadequate pressure and excessmoisture during their production, Ando told reporters today inTokyo.

Takata rose 2.9% to 2,111 yen as of the close of trading inTokyo, paring this year's decline to 30%. The benchmark Topix indexhas dropped 2.7% this year.

Other Recalls

Carmakers called back more than 3 million vehicles, including1.73 million for Toyota and 1.14 million for Honda, in April lastyear because of defective air bag inflators supplied by Tokyo-basedTakata.

Honda, the biggest customer of Takata, has called back a totalof 6 million vehicles for problems with Takata air bags in ninerecalls since 2008, based on figures from the carmaker. Two peopledied in 2009 in accidents related to the defect, Ando said.

Toyota this month said 2.27 million of its cars worldwide areaffected by the recall. A recall last year didn't include allvehicles affected by the defective air bag inflators, Toyota hassaid.

Mazda Motor Corp. recalled 159,807 vehicles, Takashi Goto, aspokesman for the carmaker, said by phone today.

“We apologize for the trouble caused to our clients,” said KikkoTakai, a Takata spokeswoman. “We take it seriously and willstrengthen our quality control to prevent a repeat of theissue.”

At GM, the biggest U.S. automaker, Chief Executive Officer MaryBarra has been coping with a recall crisis throughout 2014. Lastweek, she was grilled for almost three hours by a Housesubcommittee on the slow recall of faulty ignition switches andwhether GM's culture can change.

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