Reo Koyama
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 4- dan. He is the third person since the end of World War II to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) for passing the Professional Admission Test and the first to do so who was not a former member of the JSA's apprentice school. Koyama is also the first person from Iwate Prefecture to be awarded professional shogi player status. Early life, education and amateur shogi Koyama was born in Kamaishi, Iwate on July 2, 1993. He learned how to play shogi when he was a second-grade elementary school student. As a junior high school student, he finished third in the 27th in 2006 and third in the 33rd in 2008. In 2008, while still a third-grade junior high school student, he took the admission test for the 's apprentice school but did not pass. In 2011, Koyama and his family were forced to evacuate their home and move into temporary housing due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A second-grade s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kamaishi, Iwate
is a city located on the Sanriku rias coast in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 32,609, and a population density of 74 persons per km2, in 16,230 households. The total area of the city is Geography Kamaishi is located in the Kitakami Mountains of south-central Iwate Prefecture, with the Pacific Ocean to the east. The spectacular, rugged coast of Kamaishi is entirely within the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. There are four large bays, Ōtsuchi Bay in the north, Ryōishi Bay, Kamaishi Bay and Tōni Bay in the south. Each is separated by large, rocky, pine-covered peninsulas which jut out into the Pacific Ocean. Immediately the rocky cliffs develop into hills rising to along the coast and farther inland. The highest point in Kamaishi is Mount Goyōzan in the southwest at 1,341.3 meters in elevation. Most of the land is mountainous, allowing for little agriculture. The main rivers are the Kasshigawa River which empties into Kamaishi Bay and th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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State Of Emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state before, during, or after a natural disaster, civil unrest, armed conflict, medical pandemic or epidemic or other biosecurity risk. Relationship with international law Under international law, rights and freedoms may be suspended during a state of emergency, depending on the severity of the emergency and a government's policies. Use and viewpoints Democracies use states of emergency to manage a range of situations from extreme weather events to public order situations. dictatorship, Dictatorial regimes often declare a state of emergency that is prolonged indefinitely for the life of the regime, or for extended periods of time so that derogations can be used to override human rights of their citizens usually protected by the International Covenant on Civi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikio Kariyama
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. Early life and apprenticeship Mikio Kariyama was born in Kurashiki on November 12, 2001. He learned how to play shogi from his father, and was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Keita Inoue in September 2014. Kariyama was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2019. He obtained full professional status and the corresponding rank of 4-dan in September 2021 after tying for first with Tomoki Yokoyama in the 69th 3-dan League (April 2021September 2021) with a record of 13 wins and 5 losses. Shogi professional Promotion history The promotion history for Kariyama is as follows. * 6-kyū is a Japanese language, Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in Japanese tea ceremony, tea ceremony, ikebana, flower arranging, Go (game), Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate va ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Reo Okabe
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. Early life and apprenticeship Okabe was born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture on April 8, 1999. He learned how to play shogi from watching his older brother and grandfather play, and eventually was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional in September 2011. Okabe was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2016. He obtained full professional status and the corresponding rank of 4-dan in April 2022 after tying for first with Kenshi Tokuda in the 70th 3-dan League (October 2021March 2022) with a record of 15 wins and 3 losses. Shogi professional Promotion history The promotion history for Okabe is as follows. *6-kyū: September 2011 *3-dan: October 2016 *4-dan: April 1, 2022 *5-dan: March 11, 2025 Awards and honors Okabe won the Japan Shogi Association's Annual Shogi Awards The Annual Shogi Awards (将棋大賞 ''sh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenshi Tokuda
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 4- dan. Early life, amateur shogi and apprentice professional Tokuda was born in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture on December 9, 1997. He learned how to play shogi from watching his grandfather and father play and won the in 2009. Tokuda was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional Kenji Kobayashi in September 2010. He was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2018, and obtained full professional status and the corresponding rank of 4-dan in April 2022 after tying for first with Reo Okabe in the 70th 3-dan League (October 2021March 2022) with a record of 15 wins and 3 losses. Shogi professional Tokuda won the 12th in October 2022 by defeating amateur professional 3-dan Yūki Saitō 2 games to 0 in the best-of-three championship match. Promotion history The promotion history for Tokuda is as follows. *6-kyū is a Japanese ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tomoka Nishiyama
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. She is the current holder of the and titles as well as a former holder of the , and Women's Meijin titles. Early life, amateur shogi and education Nishiyama was born on June 27, 1995, in Ōsakasayama, Osaka. She first was exposed to shogi as a three-year-old by watching her father and older sister play but really learned how to play the game as a five-year-old first-grade elementary school student. She soon started attending a neighborhood shogi school three times a week and playing practice games on the Internet. In 2009, she won the girls' division of the 30th as a junior high school second-grade student and thereafter was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's training group in Osaka. Nishiyama quickly progressed through the training group system and was eventually accepted into the 's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Hirofumi Itō. After high scho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kana Fukuma
is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6- dan. She is the current holder of the Women's Meijin, , , , and titles. She is also the career leader in women's professional shogi major titles. Satomi is also the first female to have been promoted to Japan Shogi Association's rank of apprentice professional of 3-dan and is also the first women's professional to apply for and be allowed to take the Japan Shogi Association's Professional Admission Test. Early life, amateur shogi, apprentice women's shogi professional Satomi was born in Izumo, Shimane on March 2, 1992. In 2003, she represented Shimane Prefecture in the 28th as a fifth-grade elementary school student, and advanced to the semifinals before losing to future shogi professional Takuya Nishida. Later in 2003, Satomi entered the Japan Shogi Association's Women's Professional Apprentice League under the guidance of shogi professional . She was awarded the rank of women's professional 2-kyū in October ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shōgo Orita
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. Orita is the fourth amateur to obtain professional status without doing so via the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice professional school after he became the second player to pass the Professional Admission Test in February 2020. Shogi professional Promotion history The promotion history for Orita is as follows. *4-dan: April 1, 2020 *5-dan: October 6, 2022 You Tuber Orita is also popular shogi YouTuber A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006 ... whose channel "Age Age Shogi Commentary" has, , a little over 40 thousand subscribers and has had almost 23 million views since it was started in April 2016. References External links * ShogiHubProfessional Player Info · Orita, Shōgo * {{Authority control Li ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenji Imaizumi
is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. Imaizumi (a former 3-dan professional shogi apprentice) was the first amateur to become a professional player via the Professional Admission Test (プロ編入試験 ''puro henyū shiken'') in 2014. Shogi professional Promotion history The promotion history for Imaizumi is as follows: *4-dan: April 1, 2015 *5-Dan: June 18, 2020 Awards and honors Imaizumi received the Japan Shogi Association's Masuda Award for the 20072008 shogi season for his idea of playing " R-32" on move one as gote in the opening Opening may refer to: Types of openings * Hole * A title sequence or opening credits * Grand opening of a business or other institution * Inauguration * Keynote * Opening sentence * Opening sequence * Opening statement, a beginning statemen .... He was the first apprentice professional to win the award. References External links *ShogiHubProfessional Player Info · Imaizumi, Kenji [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yomiuri Shimbun
The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun'', the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', and the ''The Nikkei, Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. It is headquartered in Ōtemachi, Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.'' It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a Conservatism, conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based Liberalism, liberal (Third Way) ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the Nagoya-based Social democracy, social democratic ''Chunichi Shimbun''. This newspaper is well known for its pro-American stance among major Japanese media. It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of #Yomiuri Group, The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,The Yomiuri Shimbun H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Toyo Keizai
is a book and magazine publisher specializing in politics, economics and business, based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is famous for established in 1895, one of three Japanese leading business magazines ranked with published by Nikkei Business Publications and published by Diamond Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e .... Major magazines, websites and services * '' Weekly Toyo Keizai'', Japan’s oldest business magazine published since 1895. * ''Kaisha Shikiho'', Japanese company quarterly handbook which provides comprehensive earnings forecasts information for all listed companies in Japan. * ''Toyo Keizai Online'', one of the largest websites for economics and business in Japan. Toyo Keizai Data Services data provider of economic and corporate data. References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Personal Savings
Saving is income not spent, or deferred consumption. In economics, a broader definition is any income not used for immediate consumption. Saving also involves reducing expenditures, such as recurring costs. Methods of saving include putting money in, for example, a savings account, a pension account, an investment fund, or kept as cash. In terms of personal finance, saving generally specifies low-risk preservation of money, as in a deposit account, versus investment, wherein risk is a lot higher. Saving does not automatically include interest. ''Saving'' differs from ''savings''. The former refers to the act of not consuming one's assets, whereas the latter refers to either multiple opportunities to reduce costs; or one's assets in the form of cash. Saving refers to an activity occurring over time, a flow variable, whereas savings refers to something that exists at any one time, a stock variable. This distinction is often misunderstood, and even professional economists and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |