The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the presiding officer of the National Public Safety Commission, which is the parent agency of the National Police Agency. The chairperson holds the rank of minister of state, and is a statutory member of the National Security Council. The chair is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. The other five members of the commission must require the consent of both houses in the National Diet in order to serve.
The current Chairman is Yasuhiro Hanashi, who took office on 17 September 2026.
List of chair of the National Public Safety Commission
+ChairpersonTerm of officePrime minister#PortraitNameTook officeLeft officeDays1Zentarō Kosaka1 July 19541 October 1954Shigeru Yoshida2Naoshi Ohara1 October 195410 December 1954 3Tadao Ohasa 10 December 1954 23 December 1956Ichirō HatoyamaーTanzan Ishibashi (Acting)23 December 195623 December 1956Tanzan Ishibashi4Tomejiro Okubo 23 December 1956 10 July 1957Tanzan IshibashiNobusuke Kishi5Matsutarō Shōriki 10 July 195712 June 19586 Masashi Aoki 12 June 195818 June 19597 Kanichiro Ishihara18 June 195919 July 19608Iwao Yamazaki19 July 196013 October 1960Hayato Ikeda9Hideo Shuto13 October 19608 December 196010Ken Yasui8 December 196018 July 196211Kosaku Shinoda18 July 196218 July 196312Takashi Hayakawa18 July 196325 March 196413Masamichi Akazawa25 March 196418 July 196414Eichi Yoshitake18 July 19643 June 1965Hayato IkedaEisaku Satō15Tadanori Nagayama3 June 19651 August 1966Eisaku Satō16Shuji Shiomi1 August 19663 December 196617Sensuke Fujieda3 December 196625 November 196718(13)Masamichi Akazawa25 November 196730 November 196819Masuo Araki30 November 19685 July 197120Torata Nakamura5 July 19717 July 197221Takeo Kimura7 July 197222 December 1972Kakuei Tanaka22Masumi Esaki22 December 197225 November 197323Kingo Machimura25 November 197311 November 197424Hajime Fukuda11 November 197415 September 1976Kakuei TanakaTakeo Miki25Kimiyoshi Amano15 September 197624 December 1976Takeo Miki26Heiji Ogawa24 December 197628 November 1977Takeo Fukuda27Takenori Kato28 November 19777 December 197828Naozo Shibuya7 December 19789 November 1979Masayoshi Ōhira29Masaharu Gotōda9 November 197917 July 198030Jiro Ishiba17 July 198017 December 1980Zenkō Suzuki31Tōkichi Abiko17 December 198030 November 198132Masataka Sekō30 November 198127 November 198233Sachio Yamamoto27 November 198227 December 1983Yasuhiro Nakasone34Seiichi Tagawa27 December 19831 November 198435Tōru Furuya1 November 198428 December 198536Ichirō Ozawa28 December 198522 July 198637Nobuyuki Hanashi22 July 19866 November 198738Seiroku Kajiyama6 November 198727 December 1988Noboru Takeshita39Shigenobu Sakano27 December 198810 August 1989Noboru TakeshitaSōsuke Uno40Kōzō Watanabe10 August 198928 February 1990Toshiki Kaifu41Keiwa Okuda28 February 199029 December 199042Akira Fukida29 December 19905 November 199143Masajuro Shiokawa5 November 199112 December 1992Kiichi Miyazawa44Keijiro Murata12 December 19929 August 199345Kanju Sato9 August 199328 April 1994Morihiro HosokawaーTsutomu Hata (Acting)28 April 199428 April 1994Tsutomu Hata46Hajime Ishii28 April 199430 June 199447Hiromu Nonaka30 June 19948 August 1995Tomiichi Murayama48Takashi Fukaya8 August 199511 January 199649Hiroyuki Kurata11 January 19967 November 1996Ryutaro Hashimoto50Katsuhiko Shirakawa7 November 199611 September 199751Mitsuhiro Uesugi11 September 199730 July 199852 Mamoru Nishida30 July 199814 January 1999Keizō Obuchi53Takeshi Noda14 January 19995 October 199954 Kosuke Hori5 October 19994 July 2000Keizō ObuchiYoshiro Mori55(52) Mamoru Nishida4 July 20005 December 2000Yoshiro Mori56 Bunmei Ibuki5 December 200026 April 200157 Jin Murai26 April 200130 September 2002Junichiro Koizumi58 Sadakazu Tanigaki30 September 200222 September 200359 Kiyoko Ono22 September 200327 September 200460 Yoshitaka Murata27 September 200431 October 200561 Tetsuo Kutsukake31 October 200526 September 200662 Kensei Mizote26 September 200627 August 2007Shinzo Abe63 Shinya Izumi27 August 20072 August 2008Shinzo AbeYasuo Fukuda64 Motoo Hayashi2 August 200824 September 2008Yasuo Fukuda65 Tsutomu Sato24 September 20082 July 2009Tarō Asō66(64) Motoo Hayashi2 July 200916 September 200967 Hiroshi Nakai16 September 200917 September 2010Yukio HatoyamaNaoto Kan68 Tomiko Okazaki17 September 201014 January 2011Naoto Kan69 Kansei Nakano14 January 20112 September 201170 Kenji Yamaoka2 September 201113 January 2012Yoshihiko Noda71 Jin Matsubara13 January 20121 October 201272 Tadamasa Kodaira1 October 201226 December 201273 Keiji Furuya26 December 20123 September 2014Shinzo Abe74 Eriko Yamatani3 September 20147 October 201575 Taro Kono7 October 20153 August 201676 Jun Matsumoto3 August 20163 August 201777 Hachiro Okonogi3 August 20172 October 201878 Junzo Yamamoto2 October 201811 September 201979 Ryota Takeda11 September 201916 September 202080(77) Hachiro Okonogi16 September 202025 June 2021Yoshihide Suga81 Yasufumi Tanahashi25 June 20214 October 202182 Satoshi Ninoyu4 October 202110 August 2022Fumio Kishida83 Koichi Tani10 August 202213 September 202384 Yoshifumi Matsumura13 September 20231 October 202485 Manabu Sakai1 October 202421 October 2025Shigeru Ishiba86 Jiro Akama21 October 202517 September 2026Sanae Takaichi87 Yasuhiro Hanashi17 September 2026Incumbent
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