Women's Meijin

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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 20th edition uses a double elimination format to determine the 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 (1989 and 1990), 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.

It seems that there is now a league, and (from looking at the broadcast at CyberOrO) that the thinking time in the league is 3 hours per player. Can someone verify that?

Winners and defeated finalists
1st 1989 Miyazaki Shimako
2nd 1990 Aoki Kikuyo
3rd 1991 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-1
4th 1992 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-0
5th 1993 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-1
6th 1994 Sugiuchi Kazuko Ogawa Tomoko 2-0
7th 1995 Kato Tomoko Sugiuchi Kazuko 2-1
8th 1996 Nishida Terumi Kato Tomoko 2-0
9th 1997 Nishida Terumi Ogawa Tomoko 2-0
10th 1998 Nishida Terumi Ogawa Tomoko 2-0
11th 1999 Aoki Kikuyo Nishida Terumi 2-0
12th 2000 Aoki Kikuyo Kobayashi Izumi 2-0
13th 2001 Kobayashi Izumi Aoki Kikuyo 2-0
14th 2002 Aoki Kikuyo Kobayashi Izumi 2-0
15th 2003 Kobayashi Izumi Aoki Kikuyo 2-0
16th 2004 Kobayashi Izumi Inori Yoko 2-0
17th 2005 Koyama Terumi Kobayashi Izumi 2-1
18th 2006 Aoki Kikuyo Koyama Terumi 2-0
19th 2007 Kato Keiko Aoki Kikuyo 2:1
20th 2008 Xie Yimin Kato Keiko 2:0
21th 2009 Xie Yimin Chinen Kaori 2:1
22th 2010 Xie Yimin Mukai Chiaki 2:0

Previously there was another female tournament named Women's Meijin

1st 1973 Kobayashi Reiko Ogawa Tomoko
2nd 1975 Kobayashi Reiko Ito Tomoe

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