| 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: | Manabu Sakai |
| Incumbentsince: | 1 October 2024 |
| 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 Manabu Sakai, who took office on 1 October 2024.
| Term of office | Prime minister | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| 1 | Zentarō Kosaka | 1 July 1954 | 1 October 1954 | Shigeru Yoshida | |||||
| 2 | Naoshi Ohara | 1 October 1954 | 10 December 1954 | ||||||
| 3 | Tadao Ohasa | 10 December 1954 | 23 December 1956 | Ichirō Hatoyama | |||||
| ー | Tanzan Ishibashi (Acting) | December 23, 1956 | December 23, 1956 | Tanzan Ishibashi | |||||
| 4 | Tomejiro Okubo | 23 December 1956 | 10 July 1957 | Tanzan Ishibashi | |||||
| Nobusuke Kishi | |||||||||
| 5 | Matsutarō Shōriki | 10 July 1957 | 12 June 1958 | ||||||
| 6 | Masashi Aoki | 12 June 1958 | 18 June 1959 | ||||||
| 7 | Kanichiro Ishihara | 18 June 1959 | 19 July 1960 | ||||||
| 8 | Iwao Yamazaki | 19 July 1960 | 13 October 1960 | Hayato Ikeda | |||||
| 9 | Hideo Shuto | 13 October 1960 | 8 December 1960 | ||||||
| 10 | Ken Yasui | 8 December 1960 | 18 July 1962 | ||||||
| 11 | Kosaku Shinoda | 18 July 1962 | 18 July 1963 | ||||||
| 12 | Takashi Hayakawa | 18 July 1963 | 25 March 1964 | ||||||
| 13 | Masamichi Akazawa | 25 March 1964 | 18 July 1964 | ||||||
| 14 | Eichi Yoshitake | 18 July 1964 | 3 June 1965 | Hayato Ikeda | |||||
| Eisaku Satō | |||||||||
| 15 | Tadanori Nagayama | 3 June 1965 | 1 August 1966 | Eisaku Satō | |||||
| 16 | Shuji Shiomi | 1 August 1966 | 3 December 1966 | ||||||
| 17 | Sensuke Fujieda | 3 December 1966 | 25 November 1967 | ||||||
| 18 (13) | Masamichi Akazawa | 25 November 1967 | 30 November 1968 | ||||||
| 19 | Masuo Araki | 30 November 1968 | 5 July 1971 | ||||||
| 20 | Torata Nakamura | 5 July 1971 | 7 July 1972 | ||||||
| 21 | Takeo Kimura | 7 July 1972 | 22 December 1972 | Kakuei Tanaka | |||||
| 22 | Masumi Esaki | 22 December 1972 | 25 November 1973 | ||||||
| 23 | Kingo Machimura | 25 November 1973 | 11 November 1974 | ||||||
| 24 | Hajime Fukuda | 11 November 1974 | 15 September 1976 | Kakuei Tanaka | |||||
| Takeo Miki | |||||||||
| 25 | Kimiyoshi Amano | 15 September 1976 | 24 December 1976 | Takeo Miki | |||||
| 26 | Heiji Ogawa | 24 December 1976 | 28 November 1977 | Takeo Fukuda | |||||
| 27 | Takenori Kato | 28 November 1977 | 7 December 1978 | ||||||
| 28 | Naozo Shibuya | 7 December 1978 | 9 November 1979 | Masayoshi Ōhira | |||||
| 29 | Masaharu Gotōda | 9 November 1979 | 17 July 1980 | ||||||
| 30 | Jiro Ishiba | 17 July 1980 | 17 December 1980 | Zenkō Suzuki | |||||
| 31 | Tōkichi Abiko | 17 December 1980 | 30 November 1981 | ||||||
| 32 | Masataka Sekō | 30 November 1981 | 27 November 1982 | ||||||
| 33 | Sachio Yamamoto | 27 November 1982 | 27 December 1983 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | |||||
| 34 | Seiichi Tagawa | 27 December 1983 | 1 November 1984 | ||||||
| 35 | Tōru Furuya | 1 November 1984 | 28 December 1985 | ||||||
| 36 | Ichirō Ozawa | 28 December 1985 | 22 July 1986 | ||||||
| 37 | Nobuyuki Hanashi | 22 July 1986 | 6 November 1987 | ||||||
| 38 | Seiroku Kajiyama | 6 November 1987 | 27 December 1988 | Noboru Takeshita | |||||
| 39 | Shigenobu Sakano | 27 December 1988 | 10 August 1989 | Noboru Takeshita | |||||
| Sōsuke Uno | |||||||||
| 40 | Kōzō Watanabe | 10 August 1989 | 28 February 1990 | Toshiki Kaifu | |||||
| 41 | Keiwa Okuda | 28 February 1990 | 29 December 1990 | ||||||
| 42 | Akira Fukida | 29 December 1990 | 5 November 1991 | ||||||
| 43 | Masajuro Shiokawa | 5 November 1991 | 12 December 1992 | Kiichi Miyazawa | |||||
| 44 | Keijiro Murata | 12 December 1992 | 9 August 1993 | ||||||
| 45 | Kanju Sato | 9 August 1993 | 28 April 1994 | Morihiro Hosokawa | |||||
| ー | Tsutomu Hata (Acting) | April 28, 1994 | April 28, 1994 | Tsutomu Hata | |||||
| 46 | Hajime Ishii | 28 April 1994 | 30 June 1994 | ||||||
| 47 | Hiromu Nonaka | 30 June 1994 | 8 August 1995 | Tomiichi Murayama | |||||
| 48 | Takashi Fukaya | 8 August 1995 | 11 January 1996 | ||||||
| 49 | Hiroyuki Kurata | 11 January 1996 | 7 November 1996 | Ryutaro Hashimoto | |||||
| 50 | Katsuhiko Shirakawa | 7 November 1996 | 11 September 1997 | ||||||
| 51 | Mitsuhiro Uesugi | 11 September 1997 | 30 July 1998 | ||||||
| 52 | Mamoru Nishida | 30 July 1998 | 14 January 1999 | Keizō Obuchi | |||||
| 53 | Takeshi Noda | 14 January 1999 | 5 October 1999 | ||||||
| 54 | Kosuke Hori | 5 October 1999 | 4 July 2000 | Keizō Obuchi | |||||
| Yoshiro Mori | |||||||||
| 55 (52) | Mamoru Nishida | 4 July 2000 | 5 December 2000 | Yoshiro Mori | |||||
| 56 | Bunmei Ibuki | 5 December 2000 | 26 April 2001 | ||||||
| 57 | Jin Murai | 26 April 2001 | 30 September 2002 | Junichiro Koizumi | |||||
| 58 | Sadakazu Tanigaki | 30 September 2002 | 22 September 2003 | ||||||
| 59 | Kiyoko Ono | 22 September 2003 | 27 September 2004 | ||||||
| 60 | Yoshitaka Murata | 27 September 2004 | 31 October 2005 | ||||||
| 61 | Tetsuo Kutsukake | 31 October 2005 | 26 September 2006 | ||||||
| 62 | Kensei Mizote | 26 September 2006 | 27 August 2007 | Shinzo Abe | |||||
| 63 | Shinya Izumi | 27 August 2007 | 2 August 2008 | Shinzo Abe | |||||
| Yasuo Fukuda | |||||||||
| 64 | Motoo Hayashi | 2 August 2008 | 24 September 2008 | Yasuo Fukuda | |||||
| 65 | Tsutomu Sato | 24 September 2008 | 2 July 2009 | Tarō Asō | |||||
| 66 (64) | Motoo Hayashi | 2 July 2009 | 16 September 2009 | ||||||
| 67 | Hiroshi Nakai | 16 September 2009 | 17 September 2010 | Yukio Hatoyama | |||||
| Naoto Kan | |||||||||
| 68 | Tomiko Okazaki | 17 September 2010 | 14 January 2011 | Naoto Kan | |||||
| 69 | Kansei Nakano | 14 January 2011 | 2 September 2011 | ||||||
| 70 | Kenji Yamaoka | 2 September 2011 | 13 January 2012 | Yoshihiko Noda | |||||
| 71 | Jin Matsubara | 13 January 2012 | 1 October 2012 | ||||||
| 72 | Tadamasa Kodaira | 1 October 2012 | 26 December 2012 | ||||||
| 73 | Keiji Furuya | 26 December 2012 | 3 September 2014 | Shinzo Abe | |||||
| 74 | Eriko Yamatani | 3 September 2014 | 7 October 2015 | ||||||
| 75 | Taro Kono | 7 October 2015 | 3 August 2016 | ||||||
| 76 | Jun Matsumoto | 3 August 2016 | 3 August 2017 | ||||||
| 77 | Hachiro Okonogi | 3 August 2017 | 2 October 2018 | ||||||
| 78 | Junzo Yamamoto | 2 October 2018 | 11 September 2019 | ||||||
| 79 | Ryota Takeda | 11 September 2019 | 16 September 2020 | ||||||
| 80 (77) | Hachiro Okonogi | 16 September 2020 | 25 June 2021 | Yoshihide Suga | |||||
| 81 | Yasufumi Tanahashi | 25 June 2021 | 4 October 2021 | ||||||
| 82 | Satoshi Ninoyu | 4 October 2021 | 10 August 2022 | Fumio Kishida | |||||
| 83 | Koichi Tani | 10 August 2022 | 13 September 2023 | ||||||
| 84 | Yoshifumi Matsumura | 13 September 2023 | 1 October 2024 | ||||||
| 85 | Manabu Sakai | 1 October 2024 | Incumbent | Shigeru Ishiba | |||||