Toyota says May Japan sales down about 25 pct

TOKYO May 28 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp's (7203.T) sales in Japan so far in May are down roughly 25 percent from the same period last year, President Katsuaki Watanabe said on Thursday.

Watanabe also told a small group of reporters at a business lobby gathering that he expected Toyota's domestic vehicle production to exceed 11,000 units per day in both June and July.

Toyota received more than 80,000 orders for its new Prius hybrid before sales started on May 18. (Reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo)