List of Japanese professionals

   

List of professional players who are from or reside in Japan.

Please don't add names in simplified Chinese characters as List of Japanese names did.

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Nihon Ki-in
9-dan
8-dan
7-dan
6-dan
5-dan
4-dan
3-dan
2-dan
1-dan
Retired
Tokyo HQ
Kansai branch
Chubu branch
Deceased
Kansai Ki-in
9-dan
8-dan
7-dan
6-dan
5-dan
4-dan
3-dan
2-dan
1-dan
Retired
Deceased
Historical players
Honinbo
Hayashi
Inoue
Yasui
Sakaguchi
Hattori
Mizutani
Hoensha
Kiseisha
Keiinsha
Others
Residing in Japan
Residing outside Japan
See also
Discussion

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Nihon Ki-in

List of pros affiliated with Nihon Ki-in. Based on [ext] the list on their official website.

The romanization at Nihon Ki-in's website was used, which could be different than SL's. If you want to fix them, better to keep the romanization, they are official after all. Like edit "[Chang Hsu]" to "[Cho U] (Chang Hsu, Zhang Xu)" or something similar. And make aliases. The Korean names are obviously more challenging.

There are players not listed here, such as Tamura Kahei, Tamura Minoru, Shikama Chiyoji, Kusaka Kaneo, Kuwahara Munehisa, Shinohara Masami and Fujita Toyojiro. There are perhaps others too. They are basically early/pre-Nihon Ki-in pros (Nihon Ki-in is not particularly diligent in describing their past players on their website. Kansai Ki-in is.)

If anyone is interested, [ext] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/go/misc/progression.html lists everyone. That page also links to Nihon Ki-in or Kansai Ki-in profile when available. This SL page lists only pros with a profile page in those 2 websites. So comparison to that website will give you the missing pros.

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9-dan

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8-dan

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7-dan

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6-dan

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5-dan

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4-dan

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3-dan

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2-dan

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1-dan

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Retired

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Tokyo HQ

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Kansai branch

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Chubu branch

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Deceased

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Kansai Ki-in

List of professionals affliated with Kansai Ki-in. Based on [ext] the list on their official website.

The website provide the kanas for the names. Automatic romanization was used to get the romanized names. They may not agree with the names used by SL.

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9-dan

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8-dan

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7-dan

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6-dan

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5-dan

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4-dan

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3-dan

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2-dan

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1-dan

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Retired

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Deceased

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Historical players

Perfect Weiqi Database Online has an incomplete list.

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Honinbo

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Hayashi

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Inoue

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Yasui

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Sakaguchi

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Hattori

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Mizutani

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Hoensha

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Kiseisha

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Keiinsha

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Others

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Residing in Japan

Non-Nihon/Kansai Ki-in pros.

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Residing outside Japan

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See also

List of Japanese names

[ext] Nihon Ki-in list

[ext] Kansai Ki-in list

[ext] The rank progression of Japanese professional Go players by Andries E. Brouwer?

[ext] 日本の囲碁棋士一覧 (List of professional players on Japanese wikipedia)

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Discussion

tapir: I just would specify that "Japanese professionals" for current time means professionals of Nihon Ki-in or Kansai Ki-in and be done with it.

DuEm6: The original idea was to replace List of Japanese names, at least the pros. That page tried to list everyone.

Dieter: orphans that need to be included into this list, based on rank. Fuji Koki Hara Masakuzu I Ryo Iwasaki Haruto Osuke Seira Ryu Changju Sakamota Yasuo Seki Kotaro Tsuji Shigeshito

DuEm6: Fujii Koki is Fuji Koki, Yi Liao is I Ryo, Iwasaki Haruto not a pro yet I think dunno, Osuka Seira is Osuke Seira Osuke is misspelled of course, Ryu Changju is Korean KBA/Hankuk Kiwon player unless he transferred dunno, Sakamoto Yasuo is Sakamota Yasuo Sakamota is misspelled of course, Seki Koutarou is Seki Kotaro, Tsuji Shigehito is Tsuji Shigeshito Shigeshito is misspelled of course.

/shrug That's why adding and comparing the Kanji or even the Kanas are necessary for comparison and correctness. And why adding alias to alternative romanizations is necessary. But too much work of course. And imo why moving to mediawiki or something with easier search for the Asian characters would be nice.

Anyways as mentioned before, to find the missing names, the easiest would be to check Andries E. Brouwer's list. Possibly ugo database if it's updated one day.

I was going to add historical players. But it's hard, because a lot of their names don't have easy-to-find official romanizations. Like the kanas I mean.

Adding:

Hoda Shota Kawahara Yu Konishi Yoshiakira Fujita Reo Kumaki Teruya Sakuramoto Ayako Yoda Ozora Yanagihara Saki Kato Kagetaka


List of Japanese professionals last edited by Dieter on March 16, 2023 - 15:07
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