Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses (Information about Troubled Debt Restructurings of Financing Receivables) (Detail) - JPY (¥) ¥ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022	Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2020
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	¥ 14,242	¥ 24,002	¥ 16,826
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	11,471	19,776	13,804
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment	900	1,139	1,712
Consumer borrowers
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	8,761	9,279	12,041
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	6,152	6,727	9,025
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment	900	387	1,687
Consumer borrowers \| Consumer - Real Estate Loans
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	15	34	19
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	6	23	17
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment	4
Consumer borrowers \| Consumer-Card loans
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	1,385	1,677	1,899
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	1,072	1,261	1,396
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment	6	36	22
Consumer borrowers \| Consumer - Other
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	7,361	7,568	10,123
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	5,074	5,443	7,612
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment	890	351	1,665
Corporate borrowers
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	5,481	14,723	4,785
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	5,319	13,049	4,779
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment		752	25
Corporate borrowers \| Non-recourse Loans \| The Americas
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment			751
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment			751
Corporate borrowers \| Commercial, industrial and other companies in overseas \| Overseas
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Pre-modification outstanding recorded investment	5,481	14,574	4,034
Post-modification outstanding recorded investment	¥ 5,319	12,900	4,028
Financing Receivables Modification, Subsequently Defaulted Recorded Investment		¥ 752	¥ 25

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