Women's Meijin

This is the female-only equivalent of the Japanese Meijin title. Unlike the Meijin title, this tournament is conducted using the single knockout format to determine a challenger. The 20th edition uses a double elimination format to determine the challenger. The title is then decided by a best of three match with the previous year's title holder. The exceptions were in the first two years (1989 and 1990), when the title was actually determined by a Swiss system. Sponsored by Fuji Evening Newspaper and Nippon Life Insurance Company, the winner's prize is ¥5,100,000.

It seems that there is now a league, and (from looking at the broadcast at CyberOrO) that the thinking time in the league is 3 hours per player. Can someone verify that?

• http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/fmeijin/index-e.html

Previously there was another female tournament named Women's Meijin