Yoshie Ōishi

Yoshie Ōishi (Japanese: 大石ヨシエ, 12 February 1897 – 7 June 1971) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]

Yoshie Ōishi
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1946–1947
Constituency	Kyoto
In office 1947–1955
Constituency	Kyoto 2nd district
Personal details
Born	12 February 1897 Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Died	7 June 1971 (aged 74)

Biography

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1897, Ōishi was educated at Shinai Girl's High School, from which she graduated in 1915. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement in Maizuru and later became a member of Kokumin Doshikai. She spent two years in the United States in the early 1930s, and then worked as an advisor to the Mukden edition of Mainichi Shimbun in Manchukuo,[2] before returning to Japan. She became president of the New Japan Women's Association and the Maizur War Sufferer's Association.[3][2]

Ōishi contested the 1946 general elections as an independent candidate in Kyoto, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[3] After being elected, she joined the Japan Socialist Party, and was re-elected from Kyoto 2nd district in the 1947. She was re-elected on behalf of the Socialist Reform Party in 1949 and for the Cooperative Party in 1952, then as part of the Rightist Socialist Party in 1953. She lost her seat in the 1955 elections, after which she moved to Fukaya. She died in 1971.

References

1. Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
2. Diet distaff Pacific Stars and Stripes, 26 February 1949
3. Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p80