Hisako ÅŒishi

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

Life

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

She herself grew up in Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture ), where he attended high school before she graduated from the State University of Yokohama port. After a subsequent postgraduate studies at the College of Foreign Studies in Kanagawa Prefecture, she began her political career in 1971 as a candidate of the DSP with the election as a Member of the Parliament of Kanagawa Prefecture, where she was employed until 1989.

In 1989 Sangiin - choice Shūgiin - election in 1990 and the Sangiin election 1989, she ran unsuccessfully for each seats in upper house or lower house before it was in 2000 elected at the Shūgiin Election of Deputies of the House. There, she represented the constituency until 2005 Kanagawa Prefecture IV and belonged to the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports and Science as a member. In addition, she was deputy chairman of the DPJ and was a member of the shadow cabinet. In the 2005 election Shūgiin she suffered electoral defeat and lost her House seat to Hayashi Jun, her challenger by the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP).

Then she ran for Sangiin election on 29 July 2007 again unsuccessfully for the House of Lords. They scored 59.718 nationwide popular vote, finishing in 21st place on the electoral list of the DPJ, however, could send only twenty representatives to the House of Lords. After the death of Yamamoto Takashi on 28 December 2007 she moved then as its successor and thereby was until her own death a member of the Upper House. Between 2010 and 2011, was Ōishi Hisako, which also includes the Order of the Rising Sun was awarded, Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee in the House of Lords.