Japanese car sales surge in September

Most Japanese automakers' business in China recovered from last year's disastrous sales drop with reporting high double-digit sales surges in September.

Honda Motor Co led the boom with a more than doubled year-on-year sales increase last month. The Japanese automaker sold 73,990 vehicles in China, surging 118.1 percent on an annual basis, after it reported 2.5 percent and 1.7 percent sales dips in August and July, respectively.

The unexpected high delivery number ended its continuous sales drop from last September and led to its total sales in the first nine months of the year increasing by 5.8 percent over last year.