Hisako Ōishi

Hisako Ōishi ( Japanese 大 石尚子 , Ōishi Hisako ; born August 26, 1936 in Etajima , Hiroshima Prefecture ; † January 4, 2012 in Tokyo Prefecture ) was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and later the Democratic Party ( DPJ), who was a member of both the Shūgiin ( lower house ) and the Sangiin ( upper house ).

Life

Ōishi Hisako was the granddaughter of Akiyama Saneyuki , who in May 1905 planned the deployment of the Imperial Japanese Navy as Vice Admiral during the Russo-Japanese War, the naval battle of Tsushima . Her great-uncle and older brother of Akiyama Saneyuki was General Akiyama Yoshifuru , who is considered the founder of the modernized Japanese cavalry after the Meiji Restoration .

She herself grew up in Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture ) and attended high school there before completing her studies at Yokohama State University . After a subsequent postgraduate study at the College of Foreign Studies in Kanagawa Prefecture, she began her political career in 1971 as a candidate for the DSP with the election to the parliament of the Kanagawa Prefecture, to which she belonged until 1989.

In the Sangiin election in 1989 , Shūgiin election in 1990 and the Sangiin election in 1989, she ran unsuccessfully for mandates in the upper house or lower house, before she was elected in the 2000 Shūgiin election as a member of the lower house. There she represented the constituency of Kanagawa Prefecture IV until 2005 and was a member of the Committee for Education, Culture, Sports and Science. She was also deputy chairman of the DPJ and was a member of its shadow cabinet . In the Shūgiin election in 2005 , she suffered an electoral defeat and lost her lower house mandate to Hayashi Jun, her challenger from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Then she ran again unsuccessfully for the House of Lords at Sangiin election on July 29, 2007 . It achieved 59,718 votes nationwide and took 21st place on the electoral list of the DPJ, which, however, could only send twenty representatives to the House of Lords. After Yamamoto Takashi's death on December 28, 2007, she succeeded her as her successor and thus became a member of the House of Lords until her own death. Between 2010 and 2011, Ōishi Hisako, who was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun , chaired the House of Lords Disciplinary Committee.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the DPJ
• Private homepage

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ōishi is the family name, Hisako the first name.