Jin Murai

Jin Murai (Japanese村井 仁, Jin Murai; born March 28, 1937 in Kiso- Fukushima (now Kiso ), Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese politician and since 2006 a non-party governor of Nagano Prefecture. Previously, he was Shūgiin deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party and as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Minister in the Cabinet Koizumi.

Murai graduated in 1959 from his studies in economics at the University of Tokyo and officer was then in the MITI. In the meantime, he worked for the Japanese embassies in Lagos and Canberra. In 1986 Shūgiin - election, he successfully ran for the LDP in the 4th constituency Nagano for the Shūgiin and was subsequently re-elected five times. From 1991 to 1992 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. In 1993 he moved to renew the party, and later to the New Progressive Party. After its dissolution, he returned to the LDP. Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô appointed him in 2001 as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister of State for Civil Protection.

In the 2005 election Shūgiin Murai no longer went to, to compete around 2006 as a non-party in the gubernatorial election in Nagano. His candidacy against incumbent Yasuo Tanaka was supported by the then governing party LDP and Kōmeitō. He won the election with 612 725 to 534 229 votes.

A controversial measure of his term of office was to lift a moratorium on dams that Tanaka had been adopted. He also abolished the ostentatiously decorated glass office of his predecessor.