(As of March 2022)
MATSUBARA Jin
- In-House Group: The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Independent
- Elected: Tokyo 3rd District (single-seat constituency), eight times
- Born: July 1956, Itabashi, Tokyo
- Education:
- School of Commerce, Waseda University
- Career:
- Present posts:
- Senior Director, Standing Committee on Audit and Oversight of Administration, House of Representatives (HR)
- Member, HR Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Chief Director, Parliamentary League to Take Action to Rescue Immediately the Japanese Citizens Abducted by North Korea
- Chief Director, Parliamentary League of Online Games and Esports
- Secretary General, Parliamentary League for the Promotion of Resource Recycling
- Secretary General, Parliamentary League for the Promotion of Legislation related to Vegetarianism and Veganism
- Secretary General, Parliamentary League for the Utilization of CBD
- Past posts:
- Member, Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly (two terms)
- Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission (2012)
- Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety (2012)
- Minister of State for the Abduction Issue (2012)
- State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2011)
- Chairperson, Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Tokyo Prefecture 3rd Electoral District General Branch
- Deputy Director, DPJ Headquarters for North Korean Abductions
- Chair, DPJ Diet Affairs Committee
- Chairperson, Federation of Tokyo Metropolitan DPJ Branches
- Chairperson, General Meeting of the Party of Hope Caucus
- Chairperson, General Meeting of the Party of Hope Caucus, HR
- Director, HR Special Committee on Disasters
- Chair, HR Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues
- Director, HR Standing Committee on Cabinet
- Member, HR Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Chair, HR Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems
- Other:
- Matsushita Institute of Government and Management (2nd class)
