One in five Diet members received pensions from their earlier jobs, on top of their 24.03 million yen basic salary as legislators, according to the report on lawmakers' 1999 income released Monday.

A total of 96 Lower House and 72 Upper House members -- mostly ex-bureaucrats, prefectural and municipal assembly members, schoolteachers and labor union officials of major corporations -- reported pension revenue in their 1999 income report.

Yoshio Suzuki, 68, of the Liberal Party, reported 8.98 million yen in miscellaneous income, including pension benefits from his previous job as Bank of Japan director.