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Women's Meijin (shogi)
The Women's Meijin () is one of the eight major titles of women's professional shogi. The title is awarded yearly to the winner of the a best-of-five match between the defending Women's Meijin and a challenger determined through league play. The current Women's Meijin titleholder is Tomoka Nishiyama. Founded in 1974, the Women's Meijin is the oldest of the women's major titles. The title match and league play is currently cosponsored by the Japanese daily sports newspaper ''Sports Hochi'' with additional support being provided by the Japanese company Universal Entertainment. The tournament is officially known as the Okada Museum of Art Women's Meijin Tournament () after the Okada Museum of Art, which is affiliated with Universal Entertainment. History Up until 1974, there had no been system specifically for women players within the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) and they were expected to meet the same promotion and ranking rules as men if they wanted to obtain full professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia. The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (''points'') of a board. Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all orthogonally adjacent points, in which case the stone or group is ''captured''. The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiscal Year
A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes. It is also used for financial reporting by businesses and other organizations. Laws in many jurisdictions require company financial reports to be prepared and published on an annual basis but generally not the reporting period to align with the calendar year (1 January to 31 December). Taxation laws generally require accounting records to be maintained and taxes calculated on an annual basis, which usually corresponds to the fiscal year used for government purposes. The calculation of tax on an annual basis is especially relevant for direct taxes, such as income tax. Many annual government fees—such as council tax and license fees, are also levied on a fiscal year basis, but others are charged on an anniversary basis. Some companies, such as Cisco Systems, end their fiscal year on the same day of the week each year: the day ... [...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] |
Chikako Nagasawa
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. Promotion history Nagasawa's promotion history is as follows. * 2-kyū: August 1, 1979 * 1-dan: February 26, 1980 * 2-dan: April 7, 1994 * 3-dan: May 22, 1989 * 4-dan: April 1, 2000 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Titles and other championships Nagasawa has appeared in women's major title matches twice, but has yet to win a major title. She was the challenger for the 6th title in 1983 and the 11th Women's Meijin title in 1984, but lost each time. She has, however, won one non-major title women's tournament: the 9th in 1995. Awards and honors Nagasawa received the Japan Shogi Association The , or JSA, is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. The JSA sets the professional calendar, negotiates sponsorship and media promotion deals, helps organize tournaments and title matches, publishes shogi-related materia ...'s received the "25 Years Service Award" in recognition of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Hayashiba
, who is also known by the pen name , is a Japanese writer and manga author from Fukuoka. She had a successful career as professional shogi player but quit during a sex scandal with another professional player, Makoto Nakahara, in 1995. Since then, she has focused on writing and TV work. She has written two novel series, ''Tondemo Police'' and ''Kiss Dakeja Iya'', and the manga ''Shion no Ō''. In 2010, after a 15-year absence, she returned to shogi. Shogi professional Hayashiba defeated professional shogi player in a 1991 game using the rare Sleeve Rook opening as Black, which made her the first female professional to defeat a male in a tournament game. Hayashiba's victory, however, is considered to be an "unofficial" because the Ginga Tournament did not become an official tournament until 2000. She had the record for the highest yearly winning rate of 0.852 (23 wins out of 27) in 1989 until it was surpassed by Ichiyo Shimizu in 1993 (0.897) and the record winning streak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. Reports 19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst The Hochi Shimbun newspaper was mentioned in an article in The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser on September 20, 1939 concerning the conversion of the SS Scharnhorst into the escort carrier Shin'yō by the Imperial Japanese Navy. See also *Hochi Film Award *Golden Spirit Award The Golden Spirit Award is given annually to the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) player who "best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team", as voted on by members of th ... References External links * Daily newspapers published in Japan Sports newspapers published in Japan {{sports-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Japan
The first dailies were established in Japan in 1870. In 2018 the number of the newspapers was 103 in the country. Below is a list of newspapers published in Japan. (See also Japanese newspapers.) Big five national newspapers in Japan includes: ''The Asahi Shimbun'', ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', ''Mainichi Shimbun'', ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'', and ''Sankei Shimbun''. National papers Big six * ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' (daily) 6,860,222 * ''The Asahi Shimbun'' (daily) 4,298,513 * ''Chunichi Shimbun'' / ''Tokyo Shimbun'' (daily) 2 ,321,414 * ''Mainichi Shimbun'' (daily) 1,933,714 * ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (daily) 1,753,877 * ''Sankei Shimbun'' (daily) 1,026,293 Hokkaido Block papers of Hokkaido * ''Hokkaido Shimbun'' Regional papers of Hokkaido * Sorachi ** ''Kitasorachi Shimbun'' ( Fukagawa) ** ''Press Sorachi'' (Takikawa) * Shiribeshi ** ''Otaru Shimpō'' (Otaru) * Iburi ** ''Muroran Mimpō'' (Muroran) ** ''Tomakomai Mimpō'' (Tomakomai) * Hidaka ** ''Hidaka Hōchi Shimbun'' ( Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Muroya
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] |
Manaka Inagawa
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. Promotion history Inagawa's promotion history is as follows: * 2-kyū is a Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in tea ceremony, flower arranging, Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, levels or degrees of proficiency or experience. In Mandarin Chin ...: October 1, 2006 * 1-kyū: April 1, 2008 * 1-dan: July 12, 2013 * 2-dan: April 6, 2021 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. References External links * ShogiHubInagawa, Manaka 1991 births Living people People from Kisarazu Japanese shogi players Women's professional shogi players Professional shogi players from Chiba Prefecture {{Shogi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relegated
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are often called open leagues. In a system of promotion and relegation, the best-ranked team(s) in the lower division are ''promoted'' to the higher division for the next season, and the worst-ranked team(s) in the higher division are ''relegated'' to the lower division for the next season. In some leagues, playoffs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings. This process can continue through several levels of divisions, with teams being exchanged between adjacent divisions. During the season, teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the ''promotion zone'', and those at the bottom are in the ''relegation zone'' or Reg zone ( colloquially the ''drop zone'' or ''facing the drop''). An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manao Kagawa
in Chōfu, Tokyo is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. She is a former title holder. Women's shogi professional Kagawa challenged Tomoka Nishiyama for the Women's Ōshō title in October 2023, but lost the 45th Women's Osho title match 2 games to none. Promotion history Kagawa has been promoted as follows. * 2-kyū: October 1, 2008 * 1-kyū: July 25, 2009 * 1-dan: November 28, 2012 * 2-dan: August 29, 2013 * 3-dan: October 23, 2013 * 4-dan: January 21, 2021 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks. Major titles Kagawa has appeared in major title matches five times and has won a total of two titles. She won the title in 2013 and then successfully defended it in 2014. Awards and honors Kagawa received the Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Award "Women's Professional Most Games Played" in 2013 and the "Women's Professional Award" in 2014. Video game On March 25, 2021, SilverStar Japan released ''Kagawa Manao to Futari de Shogi'' (''香川 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichiyo Shimizu
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 7-dan. In May 2017, Shimizu became the first woman to be elected as an executive director to the Japan Shogi Association's board of directors. Early life Shimizu was born on January 9, 1969, in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. In 1983, she won the 15th Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament while she was a junior high school student. That same year, she entered the Japan Shogi Association's Women's Professional Apprentice League under the guidance of shogi professional . She achieved the rank of women's professional 2-kyū in April 1985, thus becoming the first apprentice to graduate from the Women's Professional Apprentice League system. Women's shogi professional In October 2000, Shimizu became the first women's professional to be promoted to the rank of women's 6-dan. In November 2016, Shimizu defeated Tomomi Kai in a women's meijin league game to become the second women's professional to win 600 official games. , Shimizu's career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
