Fukuoka Kotaro

福岡 航太朗, b. 2005-12-22 - Nihon Ki-in professional, pupil of Hon Seisen. The strongest Japanese teenager.

1p 2019-04-01, 2p 2021-01-07, 3p 2022-01-01, 4p 2023-01-01

• Twice Children's Kisei, as the champion of the Lower Division in 2014 (in 3rd grade) and of the Upper Division in 2016 (in 5th grade)

• Winner of the 1st (2019) Y's Academy Cup.

• His winning percentage in 2021 was 76.4% (39-12). It seems to have been the second highest of a Japanese professional in that year, after Tsuneishi Takashi's 76.9% (30-9).

• Qualified into the C League of the 46th (2021-22) Kisei

• In May 2022, he became one of the four members of the Ichiken study group on its foundation.

• Semifinalist in the 2023 Shinjin O