Political parties and related organizations, including support groups for individual politicians, collected a record 13.7 billion yen through fundraising events in 2001, according to a government report issued Thursday.
The amount, collected by 4,363 entities, was up 3.9 percent from the year before, says the annual report by the Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications Ministry.
The government started compiling such statistics in 1993.
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