is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-

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Early life and training group player

Iwasa was born in

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, Japan on August 15, 2005. She learned how to play shogi as a fourth-grade student due the influence of her older brothers. She subsequently began attending a local shogi school and had become good enough to enter the Tōkai branch of the

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's training group system as a fifth-grade elementary school student. Iwasa qualified for women's professional status after being promoted to training group B2 in December 2021. Needing a sponsor to become a women's professional, her first choice was shogi professional Masayuki Toyoshima. A meeting between the two was arranged by a mutual acquaintance and Toyoshima agreed to take her on as his first

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. She applied for women's professional status and her application was accepted by the Japan Shogi Association; she was granted women's professional status on February 1, 2022. she is a senior high school student and Uguisudani Junior and Senior High School in Gifu.

Women's shogi professional

Promotion history

Iwasa's promotion history is as follows. * 2-

: February 1, 2022 * 1-kyū: April 1, 2023 Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.

References

External links

* ShogiHub
Iwasa, Mihoko
{{DEFAULTSORT:Iwasa, Mihoko 2005 births Living people Japanese shogi players Female shogi players Shogi players from Gifu Prefecture