Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 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. 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.  19. Segment Information Business Segment Information 42 Yen (millions) Services &  Information  Telecom- Electronic  Financing Other  Elimination & Years ended March 31 Software Processing munications Devices Operations Corporate Consolidated 1998 Sales Unaffiliated customers ¥1,736,697 ¥1,688,402 ¥799,287 ¥541,023 ¥ — ¥219,973 ¥ — ¥4,985,382 Intersegment 45,305 246,012 12,450 115,667 — 127,483 (546,917) — Total sales 1,782,002 1,934,414 811,737 656,690 — 347,456 (546,917) 4,985,382 Operating costs and expenses 1,662,314 1,884,477 710,823 689,163 — 343,455 (482,203) 4,808,029 Operating income (loss) 119,688 49,937 100,914 (32,473) — 4,001 (64,714) 177,353 Total assets 1,266,111 1,449,784 601,298 982,234 — 375,193 448,419 5,123,039 Depreciation 68,567 83,403 29,744 152,856 — 8,927 8,296 351,793 Capital expenditure 95,376 106,859 54,892 201,753 — 9,951 19,757 488,588 1999 Sales Unaffiliated customers ¥2,034,569 ¥1,801,409 ¥681,059 ¥506,645 ¥ — ¥219,304 ¥ — ¥5,242,986 Intersegment 58,245 300,661 10,759 103,161 — 100,949 (573,775) — Total sales 2,092,814 2,102,070 691,818 609,806 — 320,253 (573,775) 5,242,986 Operating costs and expenses 1,926,478 2,007,998 676,161 693,145 — 313,196 (506,279) 5,110,699 Operating income (loss) 166,336 94,072 15,657 (83,339) — 7,057 (67,496) 132,287 Total assets 1,359,518 1,354,471 582,633 890,014 — 372,640 553,054 5,112,330 Depreciation 70,224 86,162 44,458 153,158 — 9,344 7,929 371,275 Capital expenditure 80,360 94,268 45,050 97,291 — 9,463 12,117 338,549