The index value represents the performance of the investment that tracks the Nikkei
225 including reinvestment of the dividend incomes from the component stocks since
year-end 1979. Therefore the return of the index between some two time points
shows the performance of the Nikkei 225 including dividend investments for the
period. Comparing the returns of the Total Return Index with those of the Nikkei 225
price index clarifies the dividend impacts to increase the Total Return, i.e. effect of
dividend reinvestment.