text: b) As described in Note 2(c), effective April 1, 2003, the Company and its domestic consolidated subsidiaries changed their method of 
  accounting for noncancelable lease transactions which transfer substantially all risks and rewards associated with the ownership of assets, 
  from accounting for them as operating leases, to finance leases. The effect of this change was to decrease sales and operating expenses in 
  the “Automobile” segment by ¥237 million and ¥21,805 million respectively, to increase operating income, total assets, depreciation expense 
  and capital expenditures in the “Automobile” segment by ¥21,568 million ¥136,522 million, ¥46,986 million and ¥55,581 million, respectively, 
  to decrease sales and operating expenses and capital expenditures in the “Sales Financing” segment by ¥33,351 million, ¥33,374 million and 
  ¥29,716 million, respectively, to increase operating income, total assets and depreciation expense in the “Sales Financing” segment by ¥23 
  million, ¥662 million and ¥292 million, respectively, and to increase sales and operating expenses in “Eliminations” by ¥15,645 million for the 
  year ended March 31, 2004 as compared with the corresponding amounts which would have been recorded if the previous method had been 
  followed. 