Employee benefit plans

6 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Employee benefit plans

Employee benefit plans

11. Employee benefit plans:

Nomura provides various pension plans and other post-employment benefits which cover certain employees worldwide. In addition, Nomura provides health care benefits to certain active and retired employees through its Nomura Securities Health Insurance Society.

Net periodic benefit cost

The net periodic benefit cost of the defined benefit plans includes the following components.

Japanese entities’ plans—

	Millions of yen
	Six months ended September 30
	2013			2014
Service cost	¥	4,237		¥	3,882
Interest cost		1,721			1,545
Expected return on plan assets		(2,486	)		(2,866	)
Amortization of net actuarial losses		1,336			1,063
Amortization of prior service cost		(574	)		(573	)
Net periodic benefit cost	¥	4,234		¥	3,051
	Millions of yen
	Three months ended September 30
	2013			2014
Service cost	¥	2,070		¥	1,945
Interest cost		861			772
Expected return on plan assets		(1,243	)		(1,433	)
Amortization of net actuarial losses		668			589
Amortization of prior service cost		(287	)		(285	)
Net periodic benefit cost	¥	2,069		¥	1,588

Nomura also recognized net periodic benefit cost of plans other than Japanese entities’ plans, which are not significant.