Kimi Ohashi (; 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.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
Biography Ohashi was born in Kanuma in 1905. She graduated from Tokyo Women'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 Cooperative Democratic Party candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p79 Following the elections she joined the National Cooperative Party. However, she was a Democratic Party candidate in in the 1947 elections, losing her seat. She ran unsuccessfully again in in the 1949 elections.
Ohashi later became a member of Soka Gakkai. She died in 1999 at the age of 94.Kimi Ohashi The Modesto Bee, 30 July 1999
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