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Sony consists of games & network services (“G & NS”), music, movies, electronics products & solutions (“EP & S”), imaging & sensing solutions (“I & SS”), finance and other businesses. The segment information is disclosed by these categories. The G & NS field mainly includes the network service business, the manufacture and sale of home video game consoles, and the production and sale of software. The music sector mainly includes music production, music publishing and video media platform businesses. The film sector mainly includes film production, television program production and media network businesses. The EP & S field mainly includes the TV business, audio / video business, still image / video camera business, smartphone business and Internet-related service business. The I & SS field mainly includes the image sensor business. The financial sector includes the insurance business, which mainly focuses on personal life insurance and non-life insurance in the Japanese market, and the banking business in Japan. Other fields consist of various business activities such as disc manufacturing business and recording media business. Sony products and services are generally unique to each operating segment.

As of March 31, 2021, there are 1,449 subsidiaries and 152 affiliated companies, of which 1,414 are consolidated subsidiaries (including variable interest entities) and 135 are equity-method affiliates.
The Company's consolidated financial statements are prepared based on US GAAP, and information on affiliated companies is also disclosed based on the definition of US GAAP. The same applies to "2nd business status" and "3rd equipment status". In addition, we have decided to voluntarily apply International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) from the first quarter of 2021. Therefore, the descriptions regarding FY2021 in "2nd Business Status" and "3rd Equipment Status" are created based on IFRS.

In addition, the Company falls under the category of specified listed companies, etc. stipulated in Article 49, Paragraph 2 of the Cabinet Office Ordinance on Regulation of Securities Transactions, etc., and as a result, among the minor standards of important facts of insider trading regulations, listed companies The numerical standard determined by comparison with the scale of is determined based on the consolidated numerical value.
The business contents and major companies in G & NS, music, movies, EP & S, I & SS, finance and other fields are as follows.

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In the I & SS field, we supply some semiconductors manufactured by domestic and overseas manufacturing companies to companies in the G & NS and EP & S fields.
In the field of music and other disc manufacturing, we supply some packaged media manufactured by domestic and overseas manufacturing companies to companies in the G & NS field, music field and movie field.

The system diagram of the business is as follows.

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