| Post: | Chair of the National Public Safety Commission |
| Body: | National Public Safety Commission |
| Native Name: | 国家公安委員会委員長 |
| Insignia: | Goshichi no kiri.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 80px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of the Government of Japan |
| Incumbent: | Yoshifumi Matsumura |
| Incumbentsince: | 13 September 2023 |
| Department: | National Public Safety Commission |
| Style: | Mr. Chairman His Excellency |
| Member Of: | Cabinet of Japan National Security Council |
| Reports To: | Prime Minister of Japan |
| Nominator: | Prime Minister of Japan |
| Appointer: | Emperor of Japan |
| Appointer Qualified: | attested to by the Emperor |
| Precursor: | Minister of Home Affairs Secretary of Home Affairs |
| Salary: | ¥20,916,000 |
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 Yoshifumi Matsumura, who took office in 13 September 2023.
| Term of office | Prime minister | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | ||||
| 1 | Zentarō Kosaka | July 1, 1954 | October 1, 1954 | Shigeru Yoshida | ||||
| 2 | Naoshi Ohara | October 1, 1954 | December 10, 1954 | |||||
| 3 | Tadao Ohasa | December 10, 1954 | December 23, 1956 | Ichirō Hatoyama | ||||
| ー | Tanzan Ishibashi (Acting) | December 23, 1956 | December 23, 1956 | Tanzan Ishibashi | ||||
| 4 | Tomejiro Okubo | December 23, 1956 | July 10, 1957 | Tanzan Ishibashi | ||||
| Nobusuke Kishi | ||||||||
| 5 | Matsutarō Shōriki | July 10, 1957 | June 12, 1958 | |||||
| 6 | Masashi Aoki | June 12, 1958 | June 18, 1959 | |||||
| 7 | Kanichiro Ishihara | June 18, 1959 | July 19, 1960 | |||||
| 8 | Iwao Yamazaki | July 19, 1960 | October 13, 1960 | Hayato Ikeda | ||||
| 9 | Hideo Shuto | October 13, 1960 | December 8, 1960 | |||||
| 10 | Ken Yasui | December 8, 1960 | July 18, 1962 | |||||
| 11 | Kosaku Shinoda | July 18, 1962 | July 18, 1963 | |||||
| 12 | Takashi Hayakawa | July 18, 1963 | March 25, 1964 | |||||
| 13 | Masamichi Akazawa | March 25, 1964 | July 18, 1964 | |||||
| 14 | Eichi Yoshitake | July 18, 1964 | June 3, 1965 | Hayato Ikeda | ||||
| Eisaku Satō | ||||||||
| 15 | Tadanori Nagayama | June 3, 1965 | August 1, 1966 | Eisaku Satō | ||||
| 16 | Shuji Shiomi | August 1, 1966 | December 3, 1966 | |||||
| 17 | Sensuke Fujieda | December 3, 1966 | November 25, 1967 | |||||
| 18 (13) | Masamichi Akazawa | November 25, 1967 | November 30, 1968 | |||||
| 19 | Masuo Araki | November 30, 1968 | July 5, 1971 | |||||
| 20 | Torata Nakamura | July 5, 1971 | July 7, 1972 | |||||
| 21 | Takeo Kimura | July 7, 1972 | December 22, 1972 | Kakuei Tanaka | ||||
| 22 | Masumi Esaki | December 22, 1972 | November 25, 1973 | |||||
| 23 | Kingo Machimura | November 25, 1973 | November 11, 1974 | |||||
| 24 | Hajime Fukuda | November 11, 1974 | September 15, 1976 | Kakuei Tanaka | ||||
| Takeo Miki | ||||||||
| 25 | Kimiyoshi Amano | September 15, 1976 | December 24, 1976 | Takeo Miki | ||||
| 26 | Heiji Ogawa | December 24, 1976 | November 28, 1977 | Takeo Fukuda | ||||
| 27 | Takenori Kato | November 28, 1977 | December 7, 1978 | |||||
| 28 | Naozo Shibuya | December 7, 1978 | November 9, 1979 | Masayoshi Ōhira | ||||
| 29 | Masaharu Gotōda | November 9, 1979 | July 17, 1980 | |||||
| 30 | Jiro Ishiba | July 17, 1980 | December 17, 1980 | Zenkō Suzuki | ||||
| 31 | Tōkichi Abiko | December 17, 1980 | November 30, 1981 | |||||
| 32 | Masataka Sekō | November 30, 1981 | November 27, 1982 | |||||
| 33 | Sachio Yamamoto | November 27, 1982 | December 27, 1983 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | ||||
| 34 | Seiichi Tagawa | December 27, 1983 | November 1, 1984 | |||||
| 35 | Tōru Furuya | November 1, 1984 | December 28, 1985 | |||||
| 36 | Ichirō Ozawa | December 28, 1985 | July 22, 1986 | |||||
| 37 | Nobuyuki Hanashi | July 22, 1986 | November 6, 1987 | |||||
| 38 | Seiroku Kajiyama | November 6, 1987 | December 27, 1988 | Noboru Takeshita | ||||
| 39 | Shigenobu Sakano | December 27, 1988 | August 10, 1989 | Noboru Takeshita | ||||
| Sōsuke Uno | ||||||||
| 40 | Kōzō Watanabe | August 10, 1989 | February 28, 1990 | Toshiki Kaifu | ||||
| 41 | Keiwa Okuda | February 28, 1990 | December 29, 1990 | |||||
| 42 | Akira Fukida | December 29, 1990 | November 5, 1991 | |||||
| 43 | Masajuro Shiokawa | November 5, 1991 | December 12, 1992 | Kiichi Miyazawa | ||||
| 44 | Keijiro Murata | December 12, 1992 | August 9, 1993 | |||||
| 45 | Kanju Sato | August 9, 1993 | April 28, 1994 | Morihiro Hosokawa | ||||
| ー | Tsutomu Hata (Acting) | April 28, 1994 | April 28, 1994 | Tsutomu Hata | ||||
| 46 | Hajime Ishii | April 28, 1994 | June 30, 1994 | |||||
| 47 | Hiromu Nonaka | June 30, 1994 | August 8, 1995 | Tomiichi Murayama | ||||
| 48 | Takashi Fukaya | August 8, 1995 | January 11, 1996 | |||||
| 49 | Hiroyuki Kurata | January 11, 1996 | November 7, 1996 | Ryutaro Hashimoto | ||||
| 50 | Katsuhiko Shirakawa | November 7, 1996 | September 11, 1997 | |||||
| 51 | Mitsuhiro Uesugi | September 11, 1997 | July 30, 1998 | |||||
| 52 | Mamoru Nishida | July 30, 1998 | January 14, 1999 | Keizō Obuchi | ||||
| 53 | Takeshi Noda | January 14, 1999 | October 5, 1999 | |||||
| 54 | Kosuke Hori | October 5, 1999 | July 4, 2000 | Keizō Obuchi | ||||
| Yoshiro Mori | ||||||||
| 55 (52) | Mamoru Nishida | July 4, 2000 | December 5, 2000 | Yoshiro Mori | ||||
| 56 | Bunmei Ibuki | December 5, 2000 | April 26, 2001 | |||||
| 57 | Jin Murai | April 26, 2001 | September 30, 2002 | Junichiro Koizumi | ||||
| 58 | Sadakazu Tanigaki | September 30, 2002 | September 22, 2003 | |||||
| 59 | Kiyoko Ono | September 22, 2003 | September 27, 2004 | |||||
| 60 | Yoshitaka Murata | September 27, 2004 | October 31, 2005 | |||||
| 61 | Tetsuo Kutsukake | October 31, 2005 | September 26, 2006 | |||||
| 62 | Kensei Mizote | September 26, 2006 | August 27, 2007 | Shinzo Abe | ||||
| 63 | Shinya Izumi | August 27, 2007 | August 2, 2008 | Shinzo Abe | ||||
| Yasuo Fukuda | ||||||||
| 64 | Motoo Hayashi | August 2, 2008 | September 24, 2008 | Yasuo Fukuda | ||||
| 65 | Tsutomu Sato | September 24, 2008 | July 2, 2009 | Tarō Asō | ||||
| 66 (64) | Motoo Hayashi | July 2, 2009 | September 16, 2009 | |||||
| 67 | Hiroshi Nakai | September 16, 2009 | September 17, 2010 | Yukio Hatoyama | ||||
| Naoto Kan | ||||||||
| 68 | Tomiko Okazaki | September 17, 2010 | January 14, 2011 | Naoto Kan | ||||
| 69 | Kansei Nakano | January 14, 2011 | September 2, 2011 | |||||
| 70 | Kenji Yamaoka | September 2, 2011 | January 13, 2012 | Yoshihiko Noda | ||||
| 71 | Jin Matsubara | January 13, 2012 | October 1, 2012 | |||||
| 72 | Tadamasa Kodaira | October 1, 2012 | December 26, 2012 | |||||
| 73 | Keiji Furuya | December 26, 2012 | September 3, 2014 | Shinzo Abe | ||||
| 74 | Eriko Yamatani | September 3, 2014 | October 7, 2015 | |||||
| 75 | Taro Kono | October 7, 2015 | August 3, 2016 | |||||
| 76 | Jun Matsumoto | August 3, 2016 | August 3, 2017 | |||||
| 77 | Hachiro Okonogi | August 3, 2017 | October 2, 2018 | |||||
| 78 | Junzo Yamamoto | October 2, 2018 | September 11, 2019 | |||||
| 79 | Ryota Takeda | September 11, 2019 | September 16, 2020 | |||||
| 80 (77) | Hachiro Okonogi | September 16, 2020 | June 25, 2021 | Yoshihide Suga | ||||
| 81 | Yasufumi Tanahashi | June 25, 2021 | October 4, 2021 | |||||
| 82 | Satoshi Ninoyu | October 4, 2021 | August 10, 2022 | Fumio Kishida | ||||
| 83 | Koichi Tani | August 10, 2022 | September 13, 2023 | |||||
| 84 | Yoshifumi Matsumura | September 13, 2023 | Incumbent | |||||