Yoshie Ōishi (; 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.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 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,Diet distaff 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 Japan Socialist Party, and was re-elected from Kyoto 2nd district in the 1947. She was re-elected on behalf of the in 1949 and for the 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.
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