Female Strongest

The Japanese Female Saikyo tournament. It was discontinued in 2008.

Also known as the Tokyo Seimitsu Cup, or the Female Strongest Player tournament.

The winner of this tournament plays a match against a Westerner each year: the opponent is decided in a playoff between an American and a European representative selected at the US Go Congress and the European Go Congress, respectively.

See also: http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/japan/w_saikyo.html

Winners:

   1st 1999 Shinkai Hiroko      (d. Yashiro Kumiko)
   2nd 2000 Kato Tomoko         (d. Aoki Kikuyo)
   3rd 2001 Aoki Kikuyo         (d. Yoshida Mika)
   4th 2002 Okada Yumiko        (d. Umezawa Yukari)
   5th 2003 Suzuki Ayumi        (d. Nakazawa Ayako)
   6th 2004 Shinkai Hiroko      (d. Okada Yumiko)
   7th 2005 Kobayashi Izumi     (d. Konishi Kazuko)
   8th 2006 Xie Yimin           (d. Konishi Kazuko)
   9th 2007 Suzuki Ayumi        (d. Aoki Kikuyo)
  10th 2008 Kato Keiko          (d. Xie Yimin)