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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi speaks to the media in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2026, following a general election.

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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi speaks to the media in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2026, following a general election.

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[Breaking News]General election in Japan

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 27 Kyodo - Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi makes a stump speech in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2026, as official campaigning begins across Japan for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8. (Kyodo)

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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi makes a stump speech in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2026, as official campaigning begins across Japan for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi makes a stump speech in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2026, as official campaigning begins across Japan for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi makes a stump speech in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2026, as official campaigning begins across Japan for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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General election in Japan

Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi makes a stump speech in Osaka on Jan. 27, 2026, as official campaigning begins across Japan for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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Debate by leaders of Japanese political parties

(from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi, Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi attend a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026, a day before official campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election starts.

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Debate by leaders of Japanese political parties

(from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi, Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi attend a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026, a day before official campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election starts.

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Japanese political parties' leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attends a debate with leaders of other political parties at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026. Participants of the debate session set prior to a general election on Feb. 8 are (from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, (from 5th from L) Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi.

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Japanese political parties' leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses with leaders of other political parties before a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026. Participants of the debate session set prior to a general election on Feb. 8 are (from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, (from 5th from L) Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi.

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Japanese political parties' leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses with leaders of other political parties before a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026. Participants of the debate session set prior to a general election on Feb. 8 are (from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, (from 5th from L) Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi.

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Japanese political parties' leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses with leaders of other political parties before a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026. Participants of the debate session set prior to a general election on Feb. 8 are (from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, (from 5th from L) Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi.

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Japanese political parties' leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses with leaders of other political parties before a debate session at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2026. Participants of the debate session set prior to a general election on Feb. 8 are (from L) Japanese Communist Party leader Tomoko Tamura, Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda, (from 5th from L) Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita, Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya and Reiwa Shinsengumi co-leader Akiko Oishi.

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Ig Nobel prize ceremony

(From L) Kazato Oishi, an associate professor at Kyoto University, Tomoki Kojima, a researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, and Sei Sato, section chief at the Aichi Livestock and Poultry Breeding Center, pose for photos in Boston on Sept. 18, 2025, after their team won the Ig Nobel prize in biology. Their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the number of biting flies landing on them was recognized at a ceremony in Boston.

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Ig Nobel prize ceremony

(From L) Sei Sato, section chief at the Aichi Livestock and Poultry Breeding Center, Tomoki Kojima, a researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, and Kazato Oishi, an associate professor at Kyoto University, attend an Ig Nobel prize ceremony in Boston on Sept. 18, 2025. Their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the number of biting flies landing on them was recognized at a ceremony in Boston.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nagasaki Gov. Kengo Oishi meets the press in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Upper house lawmaker Oishi dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2007 shows Hisako Oishi, a House of Councillors member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. Oishi died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 4, 2012, the party said. She was 75.

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Actor Matsudaira plays Oishi in Gishi-sai parade

KOBE, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Matsudaira walks with citizens in a parade at the Gishi-sai festival in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2014, to honor the "Loyal Retainers of Ako." Matsudaira played Oishi Kuranosuke, leader of a group of 47 masterless samurai of Ako who avenged their lord's death in the 18th century.

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Actor Matsudaira leads Gishi-sai parade

KOBE, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Matsudaira leads a parade during the Gishi-sai festival in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2014, to honor the "Loyal Retainers of Ako." Matsudaira played Oishi Kuranosuke, leader of a group of 47 masterless samurai of Ako who avenged their lord's death in the 18th century.

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Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazutaro Oishi stands on platform No. 17 at JR Tokyo Station on Aug. 8, 2014, recalling his duty as a driver of Japan's first bullet train on the shinkansen line in October 1964.

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Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazutaro Oishi, who drove Japan's first bullet train on the shinkansen line in October 1964, poses in the cockpit of the original "0 series" bullet train transferred to a special exhibition in Tokyo in July 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the operation of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with a Marshallese survivor (L) in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014, the 60th anniversary of the test. To the right is Kaede Nagashima, a Japanese university student from Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japanese survivor of H-bomb test meets U.S. official

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll, chats with Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands on March 1, 2014.

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Japan fisherman exposed to Bikini nuke fallout recalls ordeal

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Former Japanese fisherman Matashichi Oishi speaks of his exposure to nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test on Bikini Atoll at a school in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on Feb. 27, 2014. He was aboard the Fukuryu Maru No.5 near the atoll at that time.

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Japanese survivor of Bikini nuclear test speaks 60 years on

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (R), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, speaks during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the test in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014.

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Bikini nuclear test 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Nerje Joseph (R), 65, a Marshallese survivor of the 1954 powerful nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with Matashichi Oishi (C), 80, a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the bomb test, when they meet in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands, on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Japanese survivor of 1954 nuclear test

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former Japanese fisherman who survived a nuclear bomb test by the United States in 1954 in the South Pacific country of Marshall Islands, meets with students of a local school in the capital Majuro on Feb. 27, 2014.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 19, 2014 shows Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, and his daughter, Yoshiko Tanaka, standing in front of the trawler preserved and displayed at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall run by the Tokyo metropolitan government in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Ex-mayor from Japan energizing remote Argentine region

SALTA, Argentina - Akitada Oishi (L), a former mayor of Hita, Oita Prefecture in Japan, and his superior at the Salta provincial government examine folk crafts at a market in Salta, northern Argentina, on Sept. 11, 2013. Oishi works for Salta as an aid volunteer dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Ex-mayor from Japan energizing remote Argentine region

SALTA, Argentina - Akitada Oishi (2nd from L), a former mayor of Hita, Oita Prefecture in Japan, looks at a local tourist map in the government office of the northern Argentine province of Salta on Sept. 11, 2013, together with Salta government employees. Oishi works for Salta as an aid volunteer dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 8, 2013, shows lavender plants in full bloom in Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji (back).

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 8, 2013, shows lavender plants in full bloom in Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji (back).

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crewman Oishi with his new book

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, former crew member of Japanese trawler the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, or Lucky Dragon No. 5, holds his new book on war and the history of nuclear weapons titled ''Mujun'' (L), meaning contradiction, and the English translation of another of his books, ''The Day the Sun Rose in the West'' (R), in Tokyo in November 2011. The boat and crew members were exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.

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Pronuclear incumbent wins in Hokkaido mayoral election

IWANAI, Japan - Yuji Kamioka, the mayor of Iwanai town, Hokkaido, known as an advocate of restarting idled reactors at a nearby nuclear power plant, celebrates his reelection on Oct. 2, 2011, after seeing off the challenge of antinuclear candidate Miyuki Oishi. Kamioka secured a third four-year term after pledging stricter oversight of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant.

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Ex-crewman of irradiated Lucky Dragon No.5

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5 which was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, speaks about his experience during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2011. Oishi said people should not forget about the terrors of nuclear weapons.

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3 star pitchers of Waseda University

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University manager Atsuyoshi Otake (2nd from L) poses with pitchers Yuki Saito (L), Tatsuya Oishi and Yuya Fukui (R) at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2010, after the pitchers played their last game before joining professional clubs. Waseda became the first amateur baseball team from which three pitchers were selected as the No. 1 picks in the professional draft.

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Oishi, Seibu Lions' draft No. 1 pick

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuya Oishi, a pitcher of Waseda University and the draft No. 1 pick of the Seibu Lions professional club, throws against Tokai University in the final of a university baseball tournament at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2010.

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Waseda University pitchers

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Waseda University pitchers Yuki Saito, Yuya Fukui and Tatsuya Oishi pose for photos with trophies on Nov. 3, 2010, at the Jingu Baseball Stadium in Tokyo, after defeating Keio University in a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League game to win the league title. The three have been selected by three professional baseball teams in the first round of the amateur draft.

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Waseda University pitcher Oishi

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University right-hander Tatsuya Oishi throws against Keio University in a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League game at the Jingu Baseball Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2010. Waseda won the title. The Seibu Lions have won the rights to negotiate a contract with Oishi in the first round of bids in the Japanese baseball draft.

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Tourists stroll through Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji in the town of Fuji-Kawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, where some 12,000 lavender plants are in full bloom, on July 10, 2010.

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Minamata disease suit settled as mediation plan approved

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Toshio Oishi, the representative of unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease, speaks at a news conference in Kumamoto on March 29, 2010, after the sufferers agreed with the state, Kumamoto Prefecture and chemical maker Chisso Corp. to settle a damages suit in principle under a plan brokered by the Kumamoto District Court that includes lump-sum payments of 2.1 million yen per person.

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Ex-fisherman seeks antinuclear stone monument at Tsukiji Market

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crewman of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, visits a section of Tokyo's Tsukiji Market where ''A-bomb maguro'' (tuna) is said to have been buried.

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Hisakazu Oishi

Hisakazu Oishi, president of the Japan Institute of Construction Engineering (photo taken on Nov. 15, 2007)

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Visitors to Expo top 10 million

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Mineo Oishi (L) is all smiles as he gets a 2-carat diamond from Sakha Republic Prime Minister Egor Borison (L) after becoming the 10 millionth person to visit 2004 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 4. ''It was a big surprise. I want to go home as soon as possible to tell my wife,'' 39-year-old Onishi from Nagoy said.

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Fans of 47 ronin mark 300th anniversary of vengeance

TOKYO, Japan - Former sumo sekiwake Terao (C, front), dressed as ronin Oishi Kuranosuke, leads a parade in Tokyo's Ginza district Dec. 14 to mark the 300th anniversary of the vengeance of Oishi and 46 other ronin. In 1702, the 47 avenged the death of their lord, who was ordered to kill himself for drawing his sword in the shogun's palace.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crew member to visit Marshall Islands in Feb.

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation during a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, tells reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that he will visit the Marshall Islands, the site of the incident, in February to attend a memorial ceremony.

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Intellectuals protest nationalist-authored history text

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Mutsuko Miki, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 about their statement urging the education ministry not to approve a junior high school history textbook written by nationalist academics. In addition to Oe and Miki, the statement had the support of novelist Hisashi Inoue, photographer Yoshino Oishi and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

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Researchers decode plant genome for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Michio Oishi (R) and Satoshi Tabata (C), of the Kazusa DNA Research Institute in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, speak at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13. They and researchers in the United States, Britain, France and Germany have succeeded in decoding the genome of a plant for the first time.