Yoshie Ōishi (, 12 February 1897 – 7 June 1971) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the

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in 1946.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008
Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era
''Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University''

Biography

Born in

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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

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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

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edition of ''

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'' in

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Pacific Stars and Stripes, 26 February 1949 before returning to Japan. She became president of the New Japan Women's Association and the Maizur War Sufferer's Association. Ōishi contested the 1946 general elections as an independent candidate in Kyoto, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election
United States Department of State, 1946, p80 After being elected, she joined the

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, and was re-elected from Kyoto 2nd district in the

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. She was re-elected on behalf of the in

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and for the in

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, then as part of the Rightist Socialist Party in

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

. She lost her seat in the 1955 elections, after which she moved to Fukaya. She died in 1971.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oishi, Yoshie 1897 births Japanese suffragists 20th-century Japanese women politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Japan Socialist Party politicians Right Socialist Party of Japan 1971 deaths Activists from Kyoto Prefecture