The National Personnel Authority has released a report documenting gifts, rewards and entertainment expenses worth 5,000 yen or more that were reported by senior government officials in fiscal 2000, more than half of which were reported by Foreign Ministry officials.
According to the authority's National Public Service Ethics Board, 658 government officials voluntarily reported receiving 2,625 such rewards.
Of the total, 1,531 were cases in which officials received an honorarium for writing articles or delivering lectures, followed by 927 cases of being entertained with food and drink, and 167 cases of receiving gifts, according to the report, which was released Wednesday.