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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

My favourite AI in culture project at the moment is…besides my own work, Shogi AI. Shogi is Japanese chess and Shogi AI is already better at the game than humans, but more importantly, AI has made ...