Jin Matsubara

Jin Matsubara (Japanese松原 仁, Matsubara Jin; born July 31, 1956 in Itabashi, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party ( Ozawa Group), Member of the Shūgiin, the lower house of the national parliament, for the proportional representation block Tokyo.

Matsubara, a graduate of Waseda Daigaku Matsushita Seikei Juku and began his political career in 1985 when he ran for the New Liberal Club in Ōta unsuccessfully for Parliament Tokyo Prefecture. He was elected as an independent candidate with the support of Zeikin -tō ( " tax party " ) in 1989 and then joined the Liberal Democratic Party. The Prefecture Parliament he was a member for almost two terms until 1996; he was in the Parteiumbildungen 1990s a member of the Revival Party, the New Progressive Party, the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa and thus from 2003, including the Democratic Party.

In 1996, Matsubara back to, change the Shūgiin - election in 1996 in the new Einmandatswahlkreis Tokyo 3, Shinagawa, Ōta parts of which includes Izu - Ogasawara Islands and in national politics. He was defeated by Liberal Democrats Shin'ichiro Kurimoto, and failed again in 1998 at a by-election in the neighboring constituency Tokyo 4 jump into the national parliament. It was only at the 2000 Shūgiin election he won the constituency 3 and there was re-elected in 2003 and 2009; 2005 and 2012 he was defeated Hirotaka Ishihara, a son of ex-governor Shintaro Ishihara, but remained in each case with a narrow constituency result on the proportional representation block deputy.

2011 Matsubara was the first Secretary of State Cabinet Noda ( fukudaijin ) in the MLIT. In January 2012, Noda him then called in succession by Kenji Yamaoka ( also Ozawa Group) as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and ministers at the Cabinet Office for Special Tasks for Consumers and Food Safety ( shōhisha oyobi Shokuhin Anzen ) in his reorganized cabinet; also the responsibility for the abduction issue ( rachi mondai ) took over Matsubara by Yamaoka. With a further reshuffle in October 2012, he was replaced again.