Jin Matsubara

Jin Matsubara (松原 仁, Matsubara Jin^?, born July 31, 1956) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party (DP), (formerly the Democratic Party of Japan) (DPJ) and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

A native of Itabashi, Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the assembly of Tokyo in 1989, and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.

In the first cabinet reshuffle of Democratic Party of Japan Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on January 13, 2012 he was appointed Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety and Minister for the Abduction Issue. He left the cabinet on the October 1, 2012 cabinet reshuffle. Tadamasa Kodaira replaced him as Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, and Keishu Tanaka took over as Minister for the Abduction Issue.

Matsubara is married with three children.

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