Mahjong player from UK, creator of osamuko. Sometimes I take photographs so people call me “Mahjong Photographer” even though I'm bad at it.
Mahjong Soul
Yostar has announced that the popular online mahjong game Mahjong Soul will hold a collaboration event with Nobuyuki Fukumoto's hit mahjong manga/anime series Akagi. This will be Mahjong Soul's fourth collaboration, previous collabs were with Linovel, Saki and Kakegurui. Details are scarce but will be
Mahjong News
Since 2013, bps, author of the definitive (at the time) English Tenhou Documentation (http://arcturus.su/tenhou/) has hosted the Japanese Mahjong Wiki however, due to their life getting busier they were looking for someone to take over as webmaster so I volunteered and have now taken over. This handover
A collection of photos from the 2017 Aachen Riichi Open.
A collection of photos from the 2017 Swedish Riichi Championship in Linkoping.
A collection of photos from the 4th European Riichi Championship that took place in Farnham, UK on October 7th 2016.
In 2016, I and a small group of players from the UK travelled to Moscow for the 5th Russian Riichi Championship.
A collection of photos from a 2015 study session by Japan Professional Mahjong League's president, Shigekazu Moriyama.
World Riichi Championship
A collection of photos from the first World Riichi Championship that took place in Paris on July 16th 2014.
M League
Team1st Pick2nd Pick3rd PickKonami Mahjong Fight ClubHisato SasakiMari Takamiya Yuudai MaeharaShibuya ABEMASOoi TakaharuSho ShiratoriYoshiro Matsumoto*Sega Sammy PhoenixYuumi UotaniSeiichi KondoSayaka KayamoriEX FurinkazanAki Nikaidou Kazunori TakizawaKenji KatsumataTEAM RAIDENMasato HagiwaraNaoki SetokumaSaki KurosawaAkasaka DrivensKen SonodaJun MurakamiTarou Suzuki*U-NEXT PIRATESGo KobayashiKoushin Asakara (ASAPIN)Nobuhiro Ishibashi**ABEMAS, Drivens and PIRATES all picked Tarou as their
M League
CyberAgent, Inc, an internet service company, announced the creation of a new professional mahjong league, M League. M League aims to promote mahjong as a competitive sport, with the goal of including mahjong in the Olympics. Here’s what is known so far:
Players
Mister Mahjong, Takeo Kojima, passed away in May. I believe it was known for some time that Kojima’s health was failing. In September Mondo released a documentary about his life (Mister Mahjong: Takeo Kojima's Footprint) I met Kojima at the first World Riichi Championship. I don’t
![[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part 2 (Calling when cornered, chasing after riichi)](/content/images/size/w600/2018/06/stratdefault.jpg)
Guides
In the first part, we introduced ASAPIN’s criteria for opening his hands, and calling to elongate and switch out shapes. This time, we will discuss melding when you’re cornered, chasing after riichi by melding, this is the essence of ASAPIN’s mahjong technique.