Jin Matsubara

Jin Matsubara (2011)

Jin Matsubara ( Japanese 松原 仁 , Matsubara Jin ; born July 31, 1956 in Itabashi , Tokyo prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( NLK → non-party → LDP → JRP → NFP → LP → GGP → DPJ → DFP → Kibō → non-party) and Member of the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the Tokyo proportional representation block .

Life

Matsubara, a graduate of Waseda University and Matsushita Seikei Juku, began his political career in 1985 when he ran unsuccessfully for the Tokyo Prefectural Parliament for the New Liberal Club in Ōta . In 1989 he was elected as an independent with the support of Zeikin-tō ("Tax Party") and then joined the Liberal Democratic Party. He was a member of the prefecture parliament for almost two terms until 1996; he became in the party reshuffles of the 1990s a member of the Renewal Party, the New Progress Party, the Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa and thus from 2003 finally the Democratic Party.

1996 Matsubara resigned in order to switch to national politics in the 1996 Shūgiin election in the new single-mandate constituency Tokyo 3, the Shinagawa , parts of Ōta, which includes the Izu and Ogasawara Islands . He was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Shin'ichirō Kurimoto , and also failed to make it into the national parliament in 1998 in a by-election in the neighboring constituency of Tokyo 4. It was not until the Shūgiin election in 2000 that he won constituency 3 and was re-elected there in 2003 and 2009; In 2005, 2012, 2014 and 2017 he was defeated by Hirotaka Ishihara , a son of ex-governor Shintarō Ishihara , but remained a member of parliament with a narrow constituency result via the proportional representation.

In 2011 Matsubara first became State Secretary ( fukudaijin ) in the MLIT under the Noda cabinet . In January 2012, Noda appointed him to succeed Kenji Yamaoka (also Ozawa group) as chairman of the National Public Security Commission and minister at the cabinet office for special tasks for consumers and food safety ( shōhisha oyobi shokuhin anzen ) in his reshaped cabinet ; Matsubara also took over responsibility for the kidnapping issue ( rachi mondai ) from Yamaoka. When the cabinet was reshuffled again in October 2012, he was replaced again.

From 2013 to 2014, Matsubara headed the Democratic Party's Parliamentary Affairs Committee. From 2013 he was also chairman of the Tokyo Prefectural Association of the Democratic Party, then the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP). He resigned after being defeated in the 2017 Tokyo prefectural election. Akira Nagatsuma was elected as his successor at the Tokyo Prefecture Party Congress in September 2017, but a few weeks later he switched to the Constitutional Democratic Party (KDP). Matsubara, on the other hand, joined the new Party of Hope led by Tokyo's Governor Yuriko Koike. When the Party of Hope merged with the DFP in May 2018 to form the Democratic People's Party (DVP), Matsubara did not participate and became non-party. In May 2019 he joined the Shakaihoshō o tatenaosu kokumin kaigi faction and has been part of the joint faction of the KDP, DVP and the Social Democratic Party since September 2019 .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 民進 都 連 会長 が 正式 辞 任 ９ 月 の 大会 で 後任 選出 へ . In: Sankei News . July 19, 2017, accessed January 10, 2018 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Minshintō Tōkyō, September 13, 2017: 長 妻 昭 衆議院 議員 を 都 連 新 会長 に 選出
3. ↑ 会長 に 長 妻 氏 正式 選出 臨時 大会 ／ 東京 . (No longer available online.) In: Mainichi Shimbun . July 13, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ 民進 ・ 松原 氏 が 離 党 「新 党 参加」 」自 民 ・ 福 田峰氏 も . (No longer available online.) In: Tōkyō Shimbun evening edition. September 25, 2017, archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ 松原 仁 、 柿 沢 未 途 氏 が 野 田 元 首相 の 会 派 入 り . In: Sankei Shimbun . May 7, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 (Japanese).