A Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> dealer said on Sunday the automaker had informed him of its plans to recall the third-generation Prius cars in Japan as early as the next few days because of a braking glitch.

The dealer, on the outskirts of Toyota City in central Japan, declined to be identified. Toyota was not immediately available to comment.

(Reporting by Taiga Uranaka and Nathan Layne; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Toyota Japan Recall