Born on July 19, 2002, in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, in central Japan, to a company worker and his stay-at-home wife, Sota began learning shogi at age 5, when he was given an introductory shogi ...

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

"Shogi" fans have a new destination to flock to in the capital where they can play the traditional game and attend commentary and lecture sessions to improve their games. The Japan Shogi ...

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

Madoka Kitao, a Japanese professional Shogi player, recently visited Melbourne and Sydney to hold Shogi workshops. Australia is the 26st country she has visited for her workshops. Madoka Kitao ...

On Oct. 30, the Japan Shogi Association acknowledged that it had rejected requests from Kana Fukuma to postpone recent title matches, citing scheduling conflicts. As a result, Fukuma missed the ...

We visit a cat at a serene temple garden with a 500-year history. Then, we encounter cats with artisan owners, including a knitting expert and a man who hand carves shogi (Japanese chess) pieces.

Patrons roamed the several booths set up to showcase Japanese arts such as calligraphy, Ikebana; Origami, the art of paper ...

In the Sumide district in northern Tokyo, 86-year-old Kiyoji Saito is playing Shogi (Japanese chess) with a group of other octogenarians. Like many elderly Japanese he really doesn't like using ...

Pocket’s January-announced Hifumi Katou-Supervised Hifumin’s Shogi Dojo will launch for Switch both physically and digitally on December 20 in Japan for 4,800 yen, the developer announced.

But when engineers turned to the same advanced AI technology that had beat champions of Go and Japanese Shogi, the capabilities of machine translation soared. Sumita said machine translation ...