The government said Tuesday it spent about 36 billion yen between December 2001 and last September on the Self-Defense Forces mission to the Indian Ocean to assist U.S.-led antiterrorism operations.

Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels provided about 383,000 kiloliters of fuel to U.S., British and other countries' naval ships and helicopters involved in military operations in and around Afghanistan from the start of the operations through the end of November. The amount of fuel is worth about 14.7 billion yen, the government said.