Harada Minoru

Harada Minoru (原田実, earlier used a different kanji 稔, 1936 – July 2021) was one of Japan's top amateur players. Was awarded the Okura Prize in 2008.

Harada used the Western-order form of his name, with the family name after the given name (Minoru Harada), in the English-language versions of his Tsumego pages. Most members of the Anglophone Go community refer to him in the Japanese-order, with the given name after the family name (Harada Minoru).

Harada was born in Kagoshima in 1936 and began playing go at age 12. Since April 1996, Harada has composed and placed on his former employer's (Hitachi) website, two tsumego problems each week. New problems are posted on Monday along with the answers to the previous Monday's problems.

Titles

• All Japan Amateur Honinbo -- 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1989, 1997, 2003
  • Awarded title of Honorary Amateur Honinbo in 2010
• All Japan Amateur Meijin -- 1964, 1965, 1986, 1988
• All Japan Students Champion -- 1958, 1959
• Kagoshima Honinbo 1952

Promotion Record

• Amateur 8-dan, Nihon Ki-in, 2000
• Amateur 7-dan, Nihon Ki-in, 1971
• Amateur 7-dan, Kansai Ki-in, 1970

See also

• Tsumego by Harada Minoru on Hitachi website
  • From Internet archive, as the original site was closed down when Harada passed away. Only problems from 1996 to 2003 are archived.

• Discussion on the Hitachi problems
• Kanagawa Prefecture Go Association, for which he worked as an advisor