Revision of Proposed Year-end Dividend Payments for Fiscal Year 2003

Financials

TOKYO, JAPAN, April 22, 2004 --- NTT DoCoMo, Inc. today announced that its board of directors has passed a resolution to pay a 500-yen commemorative year-end dividend, in addition to a previously proposed 500-yen ordinary dividend, thereby raising the annual dividend from 1,000 yen to 1,500 yen for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2004.

The board decided to propose the 500-yen commemorative dividend in recognition of i-mode® subscriptions surpassing the unprecedented 40 million mark.

DoCoMo recognizes that returning profit to shareholders is an important mission of the company. Moreover, based on its policy of providing stable, sustainable annual dividends, DoCoMo decides dividends by comprehensively taking into account such factors as consolidated financial results and the overall business environment.

Revision to proposed dividend payments:
  Interim Year-end Annual
Before revisions (proposed on October 30, 2003) Ordinary: 500 yen per share Ordinary: 500 yen per share Ordinary: 1,000 yen per share
After revisions Ordinary: 500 yen per share Ordinary: 500 yen per share
Commemorative: 500 yen per share
Ordinary: 1,000 yen per share
Commemorative: 500 yen per share

Dividend for fiscal year 2002 ending March 31, 2003:
  Interim Year-end Annual
Dividend per share Ordinary: 0 yen per share Ordinary: 500 yen per share Ordinary: 500 yen per share


About NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communications company, with more than 48 million customers. The company provides a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services. These include i-mode®, the world's most popular mobile internet service, which provides e-mail and internet access to over 41 million subscribers, and FOMA®, launched in 2001 as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA. In addition to wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe and North America, the company is expanding its global reach through strategic alliances with mobile and multimedia service providers in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. NTT DoCoMo is listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM), and New York (DCM) stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.docomo.ne.jp/english

i-mode and FOMA are trademarks or registered trademarks of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan and other countries.
NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service is available only to subscribers in Japan.

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