Jinen Nagase (長勢 甚遠, Nagase Jin'en, born October 3, 1943) is a Japanese politician who formerly served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Shinzō Abe.

He resigned from this position in 1988 and was elected to the Diet of Japan in 1990.

He served as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Health and Welfare under Tomiichi Murayama, as deputy director of the Liberal Democratic Party, as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Labour under Keizō Obuchi and Yoshirō Mori, as Senior Vice Minister of Justice in the second Mori cabinet and as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary under Jun'ichirō Koizumi.

He was appointed Minister of Justice on September 26, 2006.

[1] 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!”[2]