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The Company and most consolidated subsidiaries in Japan decided to shift their covered severance benefit plans to contributory defined benefit plans effective January 1, 1999. Unrecognized past service cost (pension expense) related to this shift. 

Restructuring charges related mainly to the reorganization of manufacturing and office facilities and the disposal of assets throughout the Group in order to streamline its business structure. The amount of ¥43,714 million for the year ended March 31, 1999 includes ¥17,221 million principally for the restructuring of the semiconductor factories at the Company and ¥18,440 million in connection with the liquidation of Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd. in the U.K. Of the total amount of ¥37,961 million ($358,123 thousand) for the year ended March 31, 2000, ¥14,717 million ($138,839 thousand) relates to the restructuring of the electronic devices business and the information processing business at the Company. 

The provision for loss on the Pathway project of ¥38,111 million for the year ended March 31, 1999 relates to a realignment of the ICL Pathway Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project, which is a large-scale plan to automate postal services throughout the U.K. and to construct, implement and operate a system to deliver social benefit payments through the postal service. 

## 19. Segment Information 

The Group, as a total supplier, supplies products and services which satisfy customers' needs by incorporating leading- edge technologies in one business segment, the information technology industry. Effective the year ended March 31, 1999, however, this business segment has been divided into 5 new segments: ”Services & Software,” ”Information Processing,” ”Telecommunications,” ”Electronic Devices” and ”Other Operations” in order to present more useful information regarding the Group’s business. ”Financing” has been newly added effective the year ended March 31, 2000, accompanied with the consolidation of Fujitsu Leasing Co., Ltd. These segments are classified based upon similarity of products and services, and selling methods, etc. 

## Business Segment Information 

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