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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 Kana Fukuma. 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 professional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (game)
# Go is an abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off 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 Game piece (board game), playing pieces are called ''Go equipment#Stones, stones''. One player uses the white stones and the other black stones. The players take turns placing their stones on the vacant intersections (''points'') on the #Boards, board. Once placed, stones may not be moved, but ''captured stones'' are immediately removed from the board. A single stone (or connected group of stones) is ''captured'' when surrounded by the opponent's stones on all Orthogona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: # One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated into a relatively short time interval. # A competition involving a number of matches, each involving a subset of the competitors, with the overall tournament winner determined based on the combined results of these individual matches. These are common in those sports and games where each match must involve a small number of competitors: often precisely two, as in most team sports, racket sports and combat sports, many card games and board games, and many forms of competitive debating. Such tournaments allow large numbers to compete against each other in spite of the restriction on numbers in a single match. These two senses are distinct. All golf tournaments meet the first definition, but while match play tournaments meet the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikako Nagasawa
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. Women's shogi professional 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 * 5-dan: November 11, 2024 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 re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Hayashiba
, also known by her pen name , is a writer, manga artist and former women's professional shogi player who won several women's professional titles during her career. She has written two novel series, ''Tondemo Police'' and ''Kiss Dakeja Iya'', and the manga '' Shion no Ō''. Early life Hayashiba was born on January 24, 1968, and is from Fukuoka. She won the Women's Amateur Meijin tournament in 1979 when she was 11 years old. Women's 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. Her 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 of 17 games in a row in 1 ... [...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 The are film-specific prizes awarded by the '' Hochi Shimbun''. Categories *Best Picture *Best International Picture *Best Animated Picture (since 2017) *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best New Artist ... * Golden Spirit Award References External links * Newspapers established in 1872 1872 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Sports newspapers published in Japan {{japan-sport-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) 5,856,320 * ''The Asahi Shimbun'' (daily) 3,391,003 * ''Chunichi Shimbun'' / '' Tokyo Shimbun'' (daily) about2,100,000 * ''Mainichi Shimbun'' (daily) 1,499,571 * ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (daily) 1,375,414 * ''Sankei Shimbun'' (daily) 849,791 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 Shimbu ... [...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. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manaka Inagawa
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2- dan. Inagawa is also a licensed physician. Women's shogi professional Promotion history Inagawa's promotion history is as follows: * 2-kyū is a Japanese language, Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in Japanese tea ceremony, tea ceremony, ikebana, flower arranging, Go (game), Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, leve ...: 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 Japan Shogi Association players Female shogi players Shogi players from Chiba Prefecture {{Shogi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relegated
Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes called open leagues. In a system of promotion and relegation, the best-ranked team(s) in a lower division are ''promoted'' to a 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. 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'' (colloquially the ''drop zone'' or ''facing the drop''). These can also involve being in zones where promotion and relegation is not automatic but subject to a playoff, such as in the EFL Championship where teams 3rd to 6th enter a playoff for promotion to the ... [...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. In June 2025, she became the first woman to be elected the association's president. Early life and apprentice women's shogi professional 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 Tomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tie (draw)
A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of life such as politics, business, and wherever there are different factions regarding an issue. Terminology The word ''tie'' is usually used in North American English, North America, whereas the word ''draw'' is usual elsewhere. Resolving ties or draws In instances where a winner must be determined, several methods are commonly used. Across various sports: * Some other measure may be used, such as aggregate point difference. * A game may continue on in extra time. To ensure a quick result, some form of sudden death (sport), sudden death rule may apply. * In some sports, a penalty shootout or bowl-out may occur. * A rematch may occur at a later date, especially if a winner must be selected (in a final). * The result might be decided by chance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
