Women's Meijin
Keywords: Tournament
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 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 (1982 and 1983), 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.
Winners:
1st 1989 Miyazaki Shimako 2nd 1990 Aoki Kikuyo 3rd 1991 Sugiuchi Kazuko (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-1) 4th 1992 Sugiuchi Kazuko (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-0) 5th 1993 Sugiuchi Kazuko (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-0) 6th 1994 Sugiuchi Kazuko (d. Ogawa Tomoko 2-1) 7th 1995 Kato Tomoko (d. Sugiuchi Kazuko 2-0) 8th 1996 Nishida Terumi (d. Kato Tomoko 2-1) 9th 1997 Nishida Terumi (d. Ogawa Tomoko 2-0) 10th 1998 Nishida Terumi (d. Ogawa Tomoko 2-0) 11th 1999 Aoki Kikuyo (d. Nishida Terumi 2-0) 12th 2000 Aoki Kikuyo (d. Kobayashi Izumi 2-0) 13th 2001 Kobayashi Izumi (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-0) 14th 2002 Aoki Kikuyo (d. Kobayashi Izumi 2-0) 15th 2003 Kobayashi Izumi (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-0) 16th 2004 Kobayashi Izumi (d. Inori Yoko 2-0) 17th 2005 Koyama Terumi (d. Kobayashi Izumi 2-1) 18th 2006 Aoki Kikuyo (d. Koyama Terumi 2-0) 19th 2007 Kato Keiko (d. Aoki Kikuyo 2-1)