Kimi Ohashi
Kimi Ohashi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1946–1947 | |
| Constituency | Miyazaki |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 January 1905 Kanuma, Japan |
| Died | 1 June 1999 (aged 94) |
Kimi Ohashi (Japanese: 大橋 喜美, 29 January 1905 – 1 June 1999) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]
Biography[edit]
Ohashi was born in Kanuma in 1905. She graduated from Tokyo Girl's Higher Normal School in 1925, after which she worked as a teacher at Shimane Prefectural Hamada High School and Otsu City High School in Shiga Prefecture. Following her marriage, she moved to Nobeoka in Miyazaki Prefecture, but returned to Kanuma after her husband's death, becoming a teacher at Tochigi Prefectural Kanuma High School.
After World War II, Ohashi contested the Miyazaki district in the 1946 general elections as a Hyuga Democratic Party candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] Following the elections she joined the National Cooperative Party. However, she was a Democratic Party candidate in Miyazaki 1st district in the 1947 elections, losing her seat. She ran unsuccessfully again in Tochigi 1st district in the 1949 elections.
Ohashi later became a member of Soka Gakkai. She died in 1999 at the age of 94.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
- ^ Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p79
- ^ Kimi Ohashi The Modesto Bee, 30 July 1999