Jin’en Nagase

Jin'en Nagase (Japanese长势 甚 远, Nagase Jin'en; born October 3, 1943 in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP), Member of the Shūgiin for the first constituency Toyama and former Minister of Justice. Within the LDP, he belonged to the Machimura faction.

Nagase studied law at the University of Tokyo. After graduating in 1966 he became a civil servant in the Ministry of Labour. In 1988, he left the ministry and ran successfully in 1990 for the Shūgiin. After several committee positions, a short time as deputy LDP Secretary-General and various items of State Prime Minister Abe Shinzō appointed him in 2006 as Minister of Justice in his cabinet.

In Nagase eleven month tenure as Minister of Justice ten condemned to death were hanged, he was so that the Minister of Justice with the highest number of executions in 20 years. The approval by the Kokkai law to lower the minimum age for youth imprisonment to " about 12 " he interpreted to interpretation than downwards. Nagase had several political refugees in publicly debated and disputed in court cases abschieben.Er sat down at the same time for a fundamental reform of the Japanese Foreign Programme (外国人 研修 制度, literally " foreigners Training System " ) alleging that the access for foreign workers liberalized but should be limited in time; in August 2007 it was announced that his office had received a donation of 500,000 yen from an organization in 2006, which stands for the recruitment of cheaper foreign labor.

In the reshuffle in August 2007 Nagase was replaced by Kunio Hatoyama. In 2009 Shūgiin election he lost his first constituency of the Democrats Muneaki Murai and was re-elected on the proportional representation block Hokuriku Shin'etsu.

To Shūgiin - election in 2012 Nagase did not campaign and withdrew from politics.