The Japanese government spent the total of 389.2 billion yen in FY 2001 in the overall national budget related to sport promotion.　This takes 0.45%of the total general account budget and is estimated 0.08% in comparison with GDP.　The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has the largest budget of all the ministries: 43.2%, about 2/5 of the total budget of 168.2 billion yen while MEXT takes 77.8 billion yen (19.9%), only 1/5 of the total budget.　MHLW takes 48.6 billion yen (12.4%) and Social Insurance Agency takes 65.9 billion yen (16.9%), but the total of both becomes 1 14.5 billion yen (29.4%), and the budget for the improvement of health and health project exceeds the budget of MEXT related to the sport (See Table 1).

　Traditionally the governments spent more on the development of various sport facilities and less on training programs.　The budget related to the training of the leaders is 3,200 million yen (0.08%) and the same related to the development of the organization is 12.4 billion yen (3.2%) while the budget related to the promotion of projects is 1 17.8 billion yen (30.2%) and the same related to the facilities is 258.7 billion yen (66.5%).　This means that the budgets related to the promotion of project and to the facilities occupy 97% of the total budget (See Table 2).

　The trend for the past 10 years shows that the government's spending peaked in 1996, but the composition of the budget has been almost equal every year. The government spent constantly on development of facilities and nationwide and international sport events, regardless of the change of people's lifestyles and of the nation's values.

　

　

　According to the investigation of MEXT, the total budget related to the sport of the local governments was 423.9 billion yen in 1990*.　This exceeds the total budget related to the sport of the central government, 330.3 billion yen.　The added amount of both local and central governments was 754.2 billion yen and the budget of local governments occupies 56.2% of the total, The breakdown of the budget of the local government shows that 47 prefectures took 77.6 billion yen while municipal governments took 346.3 billion yen, 81.7% of the total.　The composition of the total sport administration budget(754.2 billion yen) shows central government (43.8%), prefectures (10.3%) and city-ward-town-village (45.9%) and city-ward-town-village took the highest budget.　*Recent data on this article is not available.

　The financial support for the sport activities has also been given in the framework of social insurance system.　There are three kinds of social insurance systems in Japan, namely, medical insurance, pension insurance and employment insurance, 　In order to execute the purpose of each insurance system, the construction and administration of the sports facilities and the subsidy for the fee to use fitness club.

　In our daily life, the insured persons and national health insurance are putting into effect a health project to encourage exercise and sport activities with the purpose of improvement of members' health.　It is supposed to use more than 5% of the annual cost for the health welfare project in the case of private company's health insurance system, but mutual aid association and sailor's insurance etc.　are carrying out the same type of project, regardless of the difference of the financial situation.　Furthermore, the welfare pension fund, the object of which is the employees of the private firms, is also promoting sport and leisure projects such as the Welfare Facility Project for the service of the participants by utilizing a certain ratio of profit coming from the operation of the fund.

　In addition to four kinds of public gambling: horse race, bicycle race, speedboat race and motorcycle race, and there are various kinds of lotteries in Japan.　Revenues have been distributed to the promotion of projects of sports from the profit of each race and lottery as it is done in Europe.　The total amount of 7.16 billion yen in 1999 from the sport races and lotteries, the amounts from bicycle race (4.01 billion yen) exceeded 50% of the total.　The public races in Japan were developed to promote livestock industry and shipbuilding industry under the difficult financial circumstances of the nation during and after the World War II.　The purpose of the foundation of public gambling in Japan is different from that in Europe, where they were established as the promotion of recreation and sport activities.

　In March 2001, Sports Promotion Lottery "toto" was launched nationwide with expectation to generate financial source to create an environment that makes sport easier for people to enjoy for the life-time.　The purpose of the lottery was publicized to the customers as part of toto logo was a written statement "For All Sports of Japan".　The annual revenue for 2001 totaled 60,400 million, falling short of the original estimate, 81,200 million yen. The toto administrator, the National Stadium and School Health Center is discussing how to increase the sales in the future.