Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016 Segment
Number of reporting segments	7
Stock rotation measurement period	6 months
Manufacturer's standard warranty period	1 year
Manufacturer's standard warranty description	In the Information Equipment Group, Kyocera provides a standard one year manufacturer's warranty on its products
Extended warranty description	For sales directly to end users, Kyocera offers extended warranty plans that may be purchased and that are renewable in one year incremental periods at the end of the warranty term.
Minimum
Lease receivable terms (in years)	1 year
Maximum
Lease receivable terms (in years)	7 years

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Describes the nature of the extended product warranties, which generally require additional fees to be paid by the buyer, and other guarantee contracts excluded from the initial recognition and initial measurement requirements. Does not include disclosures for standard product warranties, which typically have substantially shorter periods of time or provide less coverage, or both.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Describes the nature of the product warranty, including the approximate term of the product warranty, how the product warranty arose, and the events or circumstances that would require the warrantor to perform under the product warranty.

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