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Fujisawa Rina
Rina Fujisawa (藤沢 里菜 ''Fujisawa Rina'', born 18 September 1998) is a Japanese professional Go player. Biography Fujisawa is the daughter of Kazunari Fujisawa, an 8-dan professional Go player. She is also the granddaughter of the late Honorary Kisei, Hideyuki Fujisawa. She became a professional player in 2010 at the age of 11 years and 6 months, making her the youngest player in Japan to become pro; it was announced on 5 January 2019 that this record would be broken by Sumire Nakamura on 1 April 2019. Achievements In 2014, she was the winner of the 1st Aizu Central Hospital Cup. The victory made her the youngest female title holder in Japan at 15 years and 9 months. Later that year, she won the Female Honinbo title. She was the youngest Female Honinbo title holder at the age of 16 years and 1 month. The previous record was set by Hsieh Yimin Hsieh Yimin (; born on 16 November 1989) is a Taiwanese-born professional Go player in Japan. She holds the titles of Hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the west, Yamanashi Prefecture to the southwest, Tokyo to the south, Chiba Prefecture to the southeast, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the northeast. Saitama is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, with other major cities including Kawaguchi, Kawagoe, and Tokorozawa. Saitama Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, and many of its cities are described as bedroom communities and suburbs of Tokyo with many residents commuting into the city each day. History According to ''Sendai Kuji Hongi'' (''Kujiki''), Chichibu was one of 137 provinces during the reign of Emperor Sujin. Chichibu Province was in western Saitama. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Honinbo
The is a Japanese Go competition. Outline The Women's Honinbo is the female version of the Honinbo. It is sponsored by the Kyodo News Agency and Sompo Japan Insurance , formerly NKSJ Holdings and , is a Japanese insurance company. It is the second-largest property insurance company in Japan only behind Tokio Marine, with market share of 19.3% in 2007. The “Sompo” in the company's name means in Japanese, t .... The winner's purse is 5,500,000 yen.https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/fhoninbo/042.html Past winners Winners in chronological order: Winners by number of titles: References External links Nihon Ki-in archive(in Japanese) The Female Honinbo Tournament Go competitions in Japan {{Go-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Go Players
This is an article about the history of female Go players in Asia and Europe. Social background Female Go players are viewed to be a minority. This is due to these reasons: * There are many male players but only few female players. ** In Japan, there are no female winners at games without gender rules. Asami Ueno was the first female player who managed to be a finalist. ** In China, there was no female 9-dan before Rui Naiwei. ** Most players and winners at World championships are male. * Not all female players are fairly paid. Joanne Missingham is known for her protests to this issue. Comparison with female shogi players In Japan, Go players are always compared with shogi players. This is because newspapers like ''The Asahi Shimbun'' treat them equal. But there is a big difference among female players. Female Go players usually belong to the same organization with others. But this does not happen for shogi. Female shogi players belong to the Ladies Professional Shogi Associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Births
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakagoi Cup
Wakagoi Cup (officially known as ''Hiroshima aluminum cup Wakagoi Tournament'') is a Go competition in Japan. It was open for the members of the Nihon Ki-in The Nihon Ki-in (), also known as the Japan Go Association, is the main organizational body for Go in Japan, overseeing Japan's professional system and issuing diplomas for amateur dan rankings. It is based in Tokyo. The other major Go associat .... The players must be 6-dan or lower and 30 years of age or younger. The winner's prize was ¥2,000,000. It was founded in 2006. The sponsor is Hiroshima Aluminum Industry Co.,Ltd. Since 2015, the winner's prize is ¥3,000,000. Past winners References {{Japanese go titles Go competitions in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Saikyo
The Women's Saikyo (Strongest) is a Go competition. The tournament was discontinued in 2008. In 2016, the tournament restarted with new sponsor, SENKO Co., Ltd. Outline The Women's Saikyo was sponsored by Tokyo Seimitsu up to 2008. The winner's purse was 4,500,000 yen ($42,000). In 2016, the tournament got new sponsor and restarted its cycle. The official name for the new tournament is Senko Cup Female Saikyo. The winner's purse is ¥8,000,000, while the runner up gets ¥4,500,000. The thinking time was 3 hours with 5 minutes byo-yomi. Hsieh Yimin won the first edition by beating Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Spac ... in the final. Past winners Senko Cup References Go competitions in Japan {{Go-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Meijin (go)
The is a Go competition. The Women's Meijin is the female version of the Meijin title. This title is sponsored by Fuji Evening Newspaper and Nippon Life Insurance , also known as or is the largest Japanese life insurance company by revenue. The company was founded in 1889 as the ''Nippon Life Assurance Co., Inc.'' In structure it is a mutual company. It first paid policyholder dividends in 1898. Ov .... The winner's purse is 5,100,000 Yen ($48,000). The tournament was not held in 2020 due to loss of sponsorship, but resumed for the 32nd tournament in 2021 with a new sponsor. Past winners Winners in chronological order: Winners by number of titles: References External linksNihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese) {{Go-stub [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsieh Yimin
Hsieh Yimin (; born on 16 November 1989) is a Taiwanese-born professional Go player in Japan. She holds the titles of Honorary Female Honinbo and Honorary Female Meijin, and currently holds three major female titles in Japan: Female Meijin, Female Kisei and Female Honinbo. Biography Hsieh started playing Go at the age of five at the Go school that her older brother was attending. At age seven, she competed in a children's group tournament held in South Korea as the fifth member of the Taipei team, and won three out of three matches. After winning the Kaiho National Children's Go Cup at age eight, Cheng Mingchi introduced her to Kou Mousei, her future teacher. Hsieh became an insei at the Nihon Ki-in in 2002. Hsieh became a professional Go player in 2004. By becoming a professional at age 14 years and 4 months, she set the record for the youngest female professional player at the time. Also, she was the fourth female player to become a professional through the main league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aizu Central Hospital Cup
The , formerly known as before 2017, is a Go competition for female Go players. The tournament was introduced in 2014. Outline The Hollyhock Cup is sponsored by the Aizu Central Hospital, a hospital in Aizuwakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture, and named after the city flower, the common hollyhock (''Althaea rosea''). The director of the hospital is a keen go player, and in an interview he said that at one time 20 of the doctors on the staff were go players who often held their own tournaments. His aim in sponsoring the tournament is to help raise the level of Japanese women so that they can compete better internationally. The winner's purse is 7,000,000 yen The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar (US$) and the euro. It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the e ... ($60,000). The first three cycles used one final game over the course of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumire Nakamura
is a Japanese professional Go player. She became the youngest ever female professional Go player in Japan on April 1, 2019. She made her professional debut on April 22, 2019 in the preliminary round of the Ryusei tournament in western Japan at age 10 years and one month, breaking the record held by Rina Fujisawa in 2010 at age 11 years and 8 months. She is also the first Go player to turn pro under Nihon Ki-in's special screening system for "prospective, talented" players who can compete with top players from other countries. Biography Born in 2009 in Tokyo, Japan, Nakamura is the daughter of Shinya Nakamura, a 9-dan professional Go player. She started playing the ancient board game with her father when she was three and has been competing in national tournaments in Japan since she was seven. At the end of her first calendar year (2019) as a professional, the Power Report (for December 30, 2019) says "Sumire’s record for the first 'year' (actually nine months) of her career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideyuki Fujisawa
, also known as Shuko Fujisawa, was a Japanese professional Go player. A younger uncle of another professional, Hosai Fujisawa and grandfather of professional Go player Rina Fujisawa. Biography Hideyuki Fujisawa was born in Yokohama, Japan. He was one of the best players during his era. One of the "Three Crows" along with Yamabe Toshiro and Keizo Suzuki (and later Takeo Kajiwara). Even though he was known more for his controversial acts, such as having a bad drinking habit, the most important thing that shone through about Fujisawa was his Go skill. Besides Go, he was known to gamble and was a successful real estate dealer. He was also known for his calligraphy and had several exhibits of his works. He also stated in his autobiography, although he did not mind being called Shuko, he preferred to be called Hideyuki. He is the father of Kazunari Fujisawa, an 8-dan Go professional, and the grandfather of Rina Fujisawa, a 3-dan Go professional who has won multiple female titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
