TOKYO — Toyota President Akio Toyoda will publicly confront the automaker’s safety problems for the first time Friday as it considers adding the Prius hybrid to the 4.5 million vehicles already being recalled.

Toyota says CEO will hold first news conference since massive recalls

Toyota CEO to speak on quality woes

TOKYO — Toyota President Akio Toyoda will speak about quality control Friday in his first — and long awaited — news conference since the automaker announced massive global recalls last month.

Toyota says CEO will hold first news conference since massive recalls announced

Toyota CEO to hold news conference amid recalls

More trouble for Toyota as regulators launch investigation of Prius brake, recall considered

Toyota woes mount as Prius recall considered

Report: Toyota to recall 270,000 Prius hybrid vehicles over brake problems in US, Japan

Report: Toyota to recall Prius hybrid in US, Japan

Toyota faces US, Japan probe on Prius brakes, scrambling with fix in accelerator recall

Toyota faces US, Japan probe on Prius brakes

With less Arctic ice, telecom companies want to lay fiber optic cable between Japan, London

Global warming opens up Arctic for undersea cable

Sushi shortfall? Japan fights proposed bluefin tuna export ban, sees threat to iconic food

Sushi-loving Japan fears push for tuna export ban

Toyota Prius ranks top-selling car in Japan in first for hybrid as green interest grows

Prius No. 1 in Japan sales as green interest grows

Toyota Prius ranks top-selling car in Japan last year - first time hybrid clinches spot

Toyota’s Prius top-selling car in Japan last year

Toyota Prius ranks top-selling car in Japan last year _ first time for hybrid clinches spot

Toyota’s Prius top-selling car in Japan last year

Conservation group searches for Japanese whaler by helicopter in efforts to stop the hunt

Activists pursue Japanese whalers by helicopter

Anti-whaling boat struck, damaged as it confronts Japanese vessel off Antarctica

Anti-whaling boat damaged during protest at sea

Japanese researchers develop transparent goldfish

TOKYO - A team of Japanese researchers succeeded in developing goldfish with transparent scales and skin so that its organs and muscles can be seen.

Japan launches satellite

TOKYO - Japan launched an intelligence satellite Saturday from Tanegashima Space Centre in the Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, a report said.

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Bluefin tuna, overfished oceans top agenda of UN wildlife protection conference in Doha

Proposed UN ban on bluefin tuna pits Western worries against Japan’s sushi culture

Japanese dolphin-hunting village featured in Oscar-winning ‘The Cove’ defends practice

Japan says it won’t comply with possible bluefin tuna export ban ahead of key int’l vote

Toyota’s Prius hybrid tops Japan’s February car sales despite automaker’s recall woes

Honda launches sporty CR-Z hybrid while vowing to uphold quality amid Toyota’s safety woes

Honda’s sporty CR-Z hybrid going on sale in Japan, adding pizazz to green car market

Toyota begins fix on other hybrid models, apologizes for recalls in Japan newspapers

Whaling protester in custody on Japanese hunting vessel after secret boarding

Toyota starts with Prius fix in Japan in third massive global recall in 4 months

In latest blow, Toyota recalls 437,000 Prius and other hybrids globally for brake problems

Toyota recalls 437,000 Prius and other hybrids worldwide for brake problems

Toyota recalling new Prius, other models in Japan for braking problems

Toyota says it will announce Prius action plan soon in response to brake problem

Reports: Toyota decides to recall Prius model in Japan over brake problem

Toyota chief apologizes for recalls, sets up quality committee, stops short of Prius recall

Toyota says president will hold first news conference since massive recalls