4. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (13) Other (Consolidated) In accordance with the provisions of Additional Rule No.54, etc. of the Law to Partially Amend the Japanese Welfare Pension Insurance Law (Law No. 82, 1996), NTT Group pays contributions every year, based on notification from the Social Insurance Agency, to cover the cost based on the Former Public Corporation Mutual Aid Association Law, which covers pension benefits for the period of services in and prior to June 1956 of employees who retired in July 1956 or later from working at NTT, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and/or their predecessor government organizations (Ministry of Communications [in the area of telecommunications] and the Ministry of Telecommunications). The total amount of such contribution for the year ended March 31, 2010 is 56,927 million yen. Since the contribution is in the nature of a contribution under a public pension plan, the amount paid is, like insurance premiums (welfare pension insurance premiums) under other public pension plans, recorded as the costs incurred in each year. (Note) Notes to Leases, Asset retirement obligations, Financial instruments and Derivative financial instruments are omitted because materiality for disclosure is not so significant in this report. Copyright (c) 2010 Nippon telegraph and telephone corporation