is a Japanese politician who formerly served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of

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. He was born in Toyama and obtained his LL.B. from the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. After graduation, he worked in the Ministry of Labour. He resigned from this position in 1988 and was elected to the

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in 1990. He served as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Health and Welfare under

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, as deputy director of the Liberal Democratic Party, as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Labour under

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and Yoshirō Mori, as Senior Vice Minister of Justice in the second Mori cabinet and as

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under Jun'ichirō Koizumi. He was appointed Minister of Justice on September 26, 2006. In 2012, he told lobbyists “The people’s sovereignty, basic human rights, and pacifism ― these three things date to the postwar regime imposed by MacArthur on Japan, therefore we have to get rid of them to make the constitution our own!”

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagase, Jinen 1943 births Living people People from Toyama (city) University of Tokyo alumni Ministers of justice of Japan Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2003–2005 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2005–2009 Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) 2009–2012