A match during the top-level Meijin shogi ranking tournament on Dec. 13 came to an unusual end when 40-year-old Akira ...

Former shogi Meijin title holder Hifumi Kato, 84, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2024, after receiving a ...

The festival proved to be a blend of both cultures with over 800 participants at the public event. Patrons roamed the several ...

Juri Kimura is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan. She is the first person from Shiga Prefecture to become a professional shogi player.

The strongest professional shogi player has demonstrated his ability and defeated a formidable opponent. In the shogi world, ...

Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii became the youngest player ever to clinch five major professional titles in the Japanese board game, doing so just six months short of his 20th birthday. Fujii defeated ...

"Shogi" wunderkind Sota Fujii showed his mettle in winning the deciding game of the Eio championship on Sept. 13, becoming the youngest player to capture the sport’s triple crown. Fujii, 19 ...

Sota Fujii defeated eighth-dan Yuuki Sasaki 4-2 in the best-of-seven Ryuo shogi championship series and won the title for the ...

Mikoto Umezu Japanese shogi player Mikoto Umezu is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-kyū. Read article Top Questions ...