text: The Company received the approval from the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare (“MHLW”) in the year ended March 31, 2003 with respect 
  to its application for exemption from the obligation for benefits related to future employee services under the substitutional portion of the WPFP. 
  Certain domestic consolidated subsidiaries received the same approval from MHLW during the year ended March 31, 2004. In accordance with 
  the transitional provision stipulated in “Practical Guidelines for Accounting for Retirement Benefits,” the Company and the domestic consolidated 
  subsidiaries accounted for the separation of the substitutional portion of the benefit obligation from the corporate portion of the benefit obligation 
  under their WPFPs as of the dates of approval for their exemption assuming that the transfer to the Japanese government of the substitutional 
  portion of the benefit obligation and related pension plan assets had been completed as of those dates. As a result, the Company recognized a 
  loss of ¥30,945 million for the year ended March 31, 2003 and the domestic consolidated subsidiaries recognized an aggregate gain of ¥3,669 
  million and an aggregate loss of ¥1,587 million for the year ended March 31, 2004. The pension assets to be transferred were calculated at 
  ¥35,770 million for the domestic consolidated subsidiaries at March 31, 2004 and ¥241,203 million for the Company at March 31, 2003. 