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Kana Satomi
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. She is the current holder of the Women's and titles as well as the , and titles, thus making her a . She is also the career leader in women's professional shogi major titles. Satomi is also the first female to have been promoted to Japan Shogi Association's apprentice rank of 3-dan. She is also the first women's professional to apply for and be allowed to take the Japan Shogi Association's Professional Admission Test. Early life Satomi was born in Izumo, Shimane on March 2, 1992. In 2003, she represented Shimane Prefecture in the 28th as a fifth-grade elementary school student, and advanced to the semifinals before losing to future shogi professional Takuya Nishida. Later in 2003, Satomi entered the Japan Shogi Association's Women's Professional Apprentice League under the guidance of shogi professional . She was awarded the rank of women's professional 2-kyū in October 2004. Women's shogi professional In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumo, Shimane
is a city in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Izumo is known for noodles and the Izumo-taisha Shinto shrine. History Izumo Taisha is the oldest Shinto shrine in Japan. In 2008, the holy area was open to the public from 1 August until August 17, after which extensive renovation work began. The nearby Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, also located in Taisha Machi, has artifacts from the site. In 2009, a team of archaeologists announced that they likely discovered—at the Sunabara Remains in Taki-chō, Izumo City—the oldest stone tools ever found in Japan. The find totaled about 20 tools dating back an estimated 120,000 years: about 80,000 years earlier than previous estimates of when the first humans arrived in the Japanese archipelago. The stones were found directly across Route 9 from Kirara Taki beach on the Sea of Japan. The excavation team was led by Doshisha University professor Kazuto Matsufuji, and the first of the tools were unearthed by Toshiro Naruse, a professor emeritu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana Watanabe
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 3-dan. She is a former title holder. She is also the first women's professional to come out of the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan (LSPA) and subsequently be recognized as such by the Japan Shogi Association. Women's shogi professional Watanabe's first appearance in a women's professional major title match came in MayJune 2018 when she challenged Kana Satomi for 29th title, and she won the match 3 games to 1. The two met again the following year in the 30th Women's Ōi title match (MayJune 2019); Watanabe was, however, unable to successfully defend her title, losing 3 games to 1. Watanabe met Tomoka Nishiyama in the title match of the 1st title match in SeptemberOctober 2021, but lost the match 4 games to none. Promotion history Watanabe has been promoted as follows. * 3-kyū: July 3, 2012 * 2-kyū: October 2013 * 1-kyū: March 2014 * 1-dan: March 2014 * 2-dan: November 2017 * 3-dan: June 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankei Shimbun
The (short for ) is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the It has the seventh-highest circulation for regional newspapers in Japan. Among Japanese newspapers, the circulation is second only to ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', Seikyo Shimbun, ''Asahi Shimbun'', ''Chunichi Shimbun'', ''Mainichi Shimbun'', ''the Nikkei'', Nikkan Gendai, and Tokyo Sports. This newspaper is not actually a national newspaper, but a block newspaper whose publishing area is Kansai and Kanto. However, it was classified as a "national newspaper" by the reverse course policy of the business world (Keidanren). Corporate profile The ''Sankei Shimbun'' is part of the Fujisankei Communications Group and is 40% owned by Fuji Media Holdings. The company is also the owner of Osaka Broadcasting Corporation (OBC, Radio Osaka). History The ''Sankei Shimbun'' was created by the merger of two older newspapers: ''Jiji News'' and ''Nihon Kogyō Shimbun''. ''Jiji News'' was founded in 1882 by author, translator, and jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotomi Yamane
is a Japanese women's shogi player ranked 2-dan. Women's shogi professional Yamane defeated Manaka Inagawa to win the in August 2019 for her first shogi tournament championship. Yamane's first appearance in a major title match came in May 2021 when she challenged Kana Satomi for 32nd title (MayJune 2021). Yamane lost the match 3 games to none. Promotion history Yamane's promotion history is as follows. * 3-kyū: October 1, 2013 * 2-kyū: May 24, 2014 * 1-kyū: June 26, 2014 * 1-dan: April 1, 2015 * 2-dan: October 23, 2019 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Major titles and other championships Yamane has appeared in one major title match, but has yet to win a major title. Yamane has won one official non-title women's professional shogi tournament. Awards and honors Yamane won the Japan Shogi Association's Annual Shogi Award for "Excellent Women's Professional" for the 20202021 shogi year. Personal life Yamane is married to shogi professional Kei Honda. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yomiuri Shimbun
The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are the ''Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun (Tokyo Shimbun)'' the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', and the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. It is headquartered in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.' It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based liberal (Third way) Asahi Shimbun and the Nagoya-based Social democratic Chunichi Shimbun. It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings is the largest media conglomerate by revenue in Japan, while Sony is Japan's largest media con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946. It has a circulation of 1,661,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of the ''Asahi Shimbun''. Companies and regions ;Nikkan Sports News (Tokyo) :Tokyo HQ: 5-10, Tsukiji Sanchome, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan ;Hokkaido Nikkan Sports News (Hokkaido) :Hokkaido HQ: KN Building, 1-30, Kita-Sanjo-Higashi Sanchome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan ;Nikkan Sports News West Japan (Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu) :Osaka HQ: Hanshin Diamond Building, 14-24, Fukushima Sanchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan :Nagoya HQ: Asahi Kaikan, 3-3, Sakae Itchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Japan :Seibu HQ: Fukuoka Asahi Building, 1-1, Hakata Ekimae Nichome, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan See also * Nikkan Sports Film Award * Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix The Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix is an award given by the Nikkan Sports newspaper to Japanese television dramas. The 14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix was canceled due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroe Nakai
(born June 24, 1969 in Wakkanai, Hokkaido) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. She is a former women's shogi professional major title holder, having won 19 major titles throughout her career, and has been awarded the lifetime title of Queen Meijin, and also was the first women's professional to beat a regular shogi professional in an official game, the first women's professional to win an official game against a Class A professional, and the first women's professional to win a game in the NHK Cup TV Shogi Tournament. Nakai also is a former representative director of the Ladies Professional Shogi-player's Association of Japan (LPSA). Early life Nakai started playing shogi at the age of 4. She finished second in the in 1981 at the age of 11. In 1983, she entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school and reached the rank of 2-kyū before deciding to leave in 1990. Women's shogi professional Nakai was awarded the rank of women's professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Shimbun
''The Tokyo Shimbun'' (東京新聞, ''Tōkyō Shinbun'', literally ''Tokyo Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area. The group's combined daily morning circulation is 2.3 million. As of July 2021, according to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the average daily circulation of ''The Tokyo Shimbun''s morning edition was 407,777 and its evening edition sold 133,708 copies daily. The Chunichi Shimbun Company's headquarters is in Nagoya, Japan. Its total workforce number is 2,783. ''The Tokyo Shimbun'' newspaper is also the owner of the Chunichi Dragons, a professional Japanese baseball team. History The group dates back to 1888 when a regional newspaper was founded in Nagoya. In 1942, the newspaper merged with the ''Miyako Shimbun'', which was another N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsumi Ueda
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. She is a former Women's title holder. Women's shogi professional Promotion history Ueda's promotion history is as follows. * 2-kyū: April 1, 2001 * 1-kyū: April 1, 2002 * 1-dan: April 1, 2003 * 2-dan: June 30, 2008 * 3-dan: May 10, 2011 * 4-dan: May 21, 2018 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Titles and other championships Ueda has appeared in major title matches nine times and has won a total of two titles: she won the Women's title in 2011 and 2012. In addition to major titles, Ueda has won one other shogi championships: the 6th in 2012. Awards and honors Ueda has received a number of Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards: "Women's Professional Most Games Played" (2009); "Women's Professional Award" and "Game of the Year Special Prize" (2012); "Women's Professional Award" and "Game of the Year Special Prize" (2016); and "Game of the Year Special Prize" (2018). Personal life Ueda is marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishinippon Shimbun
The is a Japanese language daily newspaper published by the . As of 2022, it had a circulation of about 467,000 (total of morning and evening editions). It is headquartered in Fukuoka, which accounts for the bulk of its circulation, and is also sold throughout Kyūshū. History ''Nishinippon Shimbun'' began in 1877 as the ''Chikushi Shimbun'' to report the Seinan Civil War. In 1880 it became the ''Fukuoka Nichi-Nichi Shimbun'' and then in 1942, during the Pacific War, it joined with ''Kyushu Hodo'' to form the ''Nishinippon Shimbun''. Domestic network ''Nishinippon Shimbun'' is the largest regional newspaper in Kyushu. Its reporters network covers all of Kyushu. In addition to its main office in Fukuoka City, it has 65 local offices in the 7 prefectures of Kyushu, and has Tokyo and Osaka branches. Foreign correspondents network ''Nishinippon Shimbun'' has six foreign bureaus, in Washington, D.C., Paris, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, and Bangkok. It has also had a writer progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momoko Katō
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. She is a former holder of the , and titles. Early life and amateur shogi Katō was born in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture on October 6, 1993. She started playing shogi when she was about five years old. She started taking shogi lessons and was traveling outside of Shizuoka Prefecture to play in shogi tournaments by the time she was a third-grade elementary school student, and won a national shogi championship when she was a fifth-grade elementary school student. Apprentice shogi professional Katō entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional in 2006 when she was eleven years old. She was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 1-kyū in 2011 and then apprentice professional 1-dan in May 2014, becoming just the third woman to achieve that rank after Kana Satomi and Tomoka Nishiyama. In March 2019, Katō decided to leave the apprentice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Taniguchi
Yuki Muroya (室谷 由紀 ''Muroya Yuki'', born March 6, 1993) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 3-dan. Women's shogi professional Promotion history Muroya's promotion history is as follows. * 3-kyū: October 1, 2009 * 2-kyū: July 17, 2010 * 1-kyū: July 17, 2010 * 1-dan: April 1, 2011 * 2-dan: August 25, 2015 * 3-dan: December 27, 2019 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Titles and other championships Muroya has appeared in major titles match five times, but has yet to win a major title. She was the challenger for the 9th title in 2016, the 24th and 26th titles in 2016 and 2018, the 46th Women's Meijin title in 2020 and the 42nd title also in 2020. Awards and honors Muroya received the Japan Shogi Association's "Women's Professional" and "Women's Professional Most Games Played" Annual Shogi Awards for the April 2015March 2016 shogi year, and the "Women's Professional Most Games Played" award for the April 2016March 2017 shogi year. Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
