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Editorial notes

The NTT Group Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2007 has been created to foster communication with all our stakeholders in accordance with the NTT Group CSR Charter. The Charter, which was drafted in fiscal 2007, describes the basic principles behind the implementation of NTT Group CSR activities.

This report begins with a message from the company President, and then goes on to detail the basic vision, policies and systems that guide our CSR activities. The highlight of the report is a description of the next-generation network (NGN), our major project for 2007.
Next, we report on progress made within each of the four goals of the NTT Group CSR Charter: communication between people and their communities, communication between people and the global environment, safe and secure communication, and Team NTT communication.
We conclude with a report on communications with our stakeholders.

Please note that we have changed the definition of our fiscal year from this year's report, as a result of which fiscal 2007 (FY2007) in this report means the fiscal year from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007

We have published this report in printed and Web versions. The Web version contains a list of activities that we were unable to include in the printed version, together with links to websites that provide details on the respective topics.
To improve our CSR activities and future publications, we would greatly appreciate your thoughts and comments. Please take time to fill out the questionnaire. (To the questionnaire)

http://www.ntt.co.jp/csr_e/

In this report, NTT refers to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT Group refers to NTT and its group companies, and NTT ·· refers to individual companies within the NTT Group.
The report has been created with reference to the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines 2002 and the Japanese Ministry of the Environment's Environmental Reporting Guidelines 2007.
In order to reduce the consumption of paper resources, this report provides a condensed outline of the essential information related to the NTT Group's CSR activities. More detailed information is provided on our website.
Website: http://www.ntt.co.jp/csr_e/

Reporting Scope

Period: April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007

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Certain activities implemented after March 31, 2007 and outlook for the future are also included.

Organization: NTT and the NTT Group companies (419 companies)

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The figures given for the NTT Group in fiscal 2007 are tabulated from figures for NTT, NTT EAST, NTT WEST, NTT Communications, NTT DATA, NTT DoCoMo, and their group companies (419 companies). The scope of specific reports is noted in relevant areas.

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Organization names are current as of March 31, 2007. However, some organization names are from fiscal 2008.

Month Published: February 2008
Previously Published: December 2006
Next Report: December 2008 (provisional)

About the contents of this report

Should any errors be found in this report after publication, a report and table of errata will be provided on our website.
The contents of this report refer not only to past events, but also cover future plans and forecasts at the time of publication. Such descriptions include assumptions and judgments based on information that was available at the time of printing. Please note that actual future activities and results may differ from those described herein.
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See our CSR website for details of our latest CSR activities.

Latest information available on our regularly updated CSR website

After this report is published, we will continue to provide you with timely new information about the NTT Group's CSR initiatives through regular website updates. The latest information can be seen in the Topics section on the top page of the site.

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Figures etc. appearing in graphs included in this report may differ slightly from those displayed in the linked website pages.

More detailed information available on the website

The website presents more information than is available in this report, including examples of CSR projects and environmental data, and provides you with broader, more in-depth information about the NTT Group's CSR activities. There are also links on the site to CSR information of individual NTT Group companies.

A user-friendly website with easy-to-read page layouts

The website has been designed according to NTT official homepage guidelines and was subjected to the check of hearing-impaired, vision-impaired, and other differently abled people, most of them NTT Group employees. This checking process, which is based on the NTT CLARUTY accessibility checklist, helps to ensure that the site is suitably laid out for differently abled and elderly users.

(1)Easy adjustment of text size

We have provided a set of buttons in the top right-hand corner for enlarging or reducing text size (excluding certain pages). The "Larger" and "Smaller" buttons each provide a choice of three sizes. Using these buttons in combination with Web browser controls for text size provides an even wider range of size. For example, pressing the Larger button after setting browser text size to the "Largest" setting will further enlarge text size.

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This function works only when JavaScript is enabled. Note that the buttons will not be displayed if JavaScript is disabled.

(2)Support for voice browsers

For users of voice browsers, we have equipped this report with skip links to specific locations within each page and other voice browser navigation mechanisms for informing the user of current location, remaining amount of text and so forth.

(3)Care in use of color

We have followed universal design principles to ensure that graphs, diagrams and other elements are as easy as possible for all people to view and understand.