The All Japan Championship (also: ''Japan Championship'') is an annual international pool tournament founded by Kazuo Fujima in 1967, when there was an all-around completion with multiple disciplines. In the Men's tournament the current discipline is
Ten-ball
Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the ""
Although the game has existed for since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s ...
, however for the Women's tournament it is played in the discipline of
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
. The All Japan Championship is currently sanctioned by the JPBA (Japan Professional Pocket Billiard Association). The first 20 years only held men's competitions. It was not until the 21st competition in 1988 that the Women's event was established. Most of the competition period is after the middle of November each year. This is the most famous international large-scale pool event held in Japan, and one of the oldest tournaments in pool.
Takeshi Okumura
(born April 24, 1952 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese professional pool player.
Professional career
He started playing pool at 16 and turned professional ten years later.
Okumura won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1994, defeating Ya ...
has won the men's tournament the most times, sixteen.
Akimi Kajitani,
Liu Hsin-mei &
Pan Xiaoting have won the women's tournament the most times, three.
Tournament history
Men
Women
Japan Open
In addition to the ''All Japan Championship'' another tournament known as the ''Japan Open'' played in the discipline of Nine-ball for men and women. However, from 2011 to present, the men's tournament was played in the discipline of Ten-ball. The event began in 1988 and the year after for women and the event has continued for over 30 years.
Takeshi Okumura
(born April 24, 1952 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese professional pool player.
Professional career
He started playing pool at 16 and turned professional ten years later.
Okumura won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1994, defeating Ya ...
is the most successful player having won the tournament four times. Akimi Kajitani is the most successful player having won the women's tournament the most times, three.
Men
Women
References
External links
{{AZB, http://www.azbilliards.com/tours_and_events/118-all-japan-championship/
Pool tours and series