Japanese Chess Championship
The Japanese women's chess championship has been largely dominated by Naoko Takemoto (Naoko Takahashi before she married).
Winners
NO. Held in Men's Winner Women's Winner 1 1968 Yukio Miyasaka 2 1969 Yukio Miyasaka 3 1970 Yukio Miyasaka 4 1971 Yukio Miyasaka 5 1972 Gentaro Gonda 6 1973 Gentaro Gonda 7 1974 Ken Hamada Miyoko Watai 8 1975 Gentaro Gonda Emiko Nakagawa 9 1976 Gentaro Gonda Emiko Nakagawa 10 1977 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai 11 1978 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai 12 1979 Gentaro Gonda Naoko Takemoto 13 1980 Koobun Oda Naoko Takemoto 14 1981 Koobun Oda Naoko Takemoto 15 1982 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 16 1983 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 17 1984 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 18 1985 Gentaro Gonda
Paul KurodaNaoko Takemoto 19 1986 Jacques Pineau Naoko Takemoto 20 1987 Tomomichi Suzuki Naoko Takemoto 21 1988 Loren Schmidt Naoko Takemoto 22 1989 Gentaro Gonda Naoko Takemoto 23 1990 Joselito Sunga Naoko Takemoto 24 1991 Mats Andersson Naoko Takemoto 25 1992 Domingo Ramos Naoko Takemoto 26 1993 Jacques Pineau Naoko Takemoto 27 1994 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 28 1995 Domingo Ramos
Tomohiko Matsuonot played 29 1996 Gentaro Gonda not played 30 1997 Gentaro Gonda not played 31 1998 Akira Watanabe not played 32 1999 Akira Watanabe not played 33 2000 Akira Watanabe not played 34 2001 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai
Nguyen Khanh Ngoc35 2002 Simon Bibby not played 36 2003 Ryo Shiomi
Kiyotaka SakaiEmiko Nakagawa 37 2004 Kiyotaka Sakai Melody Garcia 38 2005 Shinya Kojima Haruko Tanaka 39 2006 Shinya Kojima
Masahiro BabaEmiko Nakagawa 40 2007 Shinsaku Uesugi
Shinya KojimaEmiko Nakagawa 41 2008 Shinya Kojima Emiko Nakagawa 42 2009 Sam Collins Narumi Uchida 43 2010 Ryosuke Nanjo
Shinya KojimaNarumi Uchida 44 2011 Ryuji Nakamura
Masahiro BabaEkaterina Egorova 45 2012 Ryosuke Nanjo 46 2013 Junta Ikeda Narumi Uchida 47 2014 Ryosuke Nanjo Narumi Uchida 48 2015 Masahiro Baba Mirai Ishizuka 49 2016 Tran Thanh Tu Mirai Ishizuka 50 2017 Koji Noguchi Karen Hoshino 51 2018 Tran Thanh Tu Qin Ranran 52 2019 Aoshima Mirai 53 2020 Tran Thanh Tu not played
References
- Results from the Japanese Chess Federation (in Japanese)
- Short biography on Akira Wanatabe
- Chess in Japan
- On Shinya Kojima's 2006 and 2007 victory (in German)
- On the 2008 edition
- On the women's editions: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (in Japanese)
- On the men's editions: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (in Japanese)
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