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News Release

March 15, 1999

Year-end Dividend for the Fiscal 1998

Hitachi, Ltd.(TSE:6501) today announced that the company will pay the following year-
end dividend for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1999, subject to an approval of the 
shareholders at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be made in June 1999.
 

Fiscal 1998 (ending March 1999)

Year-end dividend

5.5 yen per share

(For reference)

Dividends paid during

Fiscal 1997

Interim dividend

Year-end dividend

Annual dividend

(ended March 1998)

5.5 yen per share

5.5 yen per share

11 yen per share


WRITTEN BY Secretary's Office
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