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M.League - What is Known So Far

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

History of Professional Mahjong in Japan

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:

Mahjong News

ASAPIN Joins a Pro League

ASAPIN, the legendary player who reached Tenhou's summit twice, announced this week that he will be joining the Saikouisen Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyoukai (Saikouisen). In his announcement post on his new blog, ASAPIN

Mahjong News

Yuudai Maehara Defends Hououisen Title

Yuudai Maehara 9 Dan held on to Japan Professional Mahjong League's highest title for the 2nd year. Yuudai has won the Hououisen four times (1995, 2008, 2016. 2017) and shares the record of winning the Hououisen the most times with the late Mitsuru Andou-pro.

Mahjong News

Good Players Club 7th Grand Champion Cup

Today’s the day; it’s time for Good Player Club’s 7th Grand Champion Cup. We’ve mentioned last year’s iteration in this blog. Our long-time friend Benjamin Boas is participating

Mahjong News

Professional Mahjong Commentary on Mondo in English!

MondoTV have uploaded 2 videos with English commentary by mahjong researcher Benjamin Boas and mahjong author Ryan Morris. Benjamin’s contribrutions to the community should be fairly well known to everyone, and Ryan’

Mahjong News

Totori-sensei 19 years old wins the first season of Tenhoui vs Renmei

Photo from Ben and Deniz This year JPML collaborated with Tenhou and hosted a 6 month long Tenhoui vs Renmei pro tournament. The first season used a Tenhou based ruleset with 50/20/

jansou

Life as a parlor member (1)

A long time ago we explained what a mahjong parlor is. Today we start a new column where we’ll delve further into it and analyze those mysterious creatures that dwell inside them.

Tournaments

A Step Forward (Mahjong Japan Series)

This month, the Japan Professional Mahjong League debuted a new tournament, the Mahjong Japan Series. This series gathers 12 players who have either won a major title in 2014, voted by the public

Mahjong News

Benjamin Boas Leads in First Session of Good Players Club Tokyo Chomeijin

About GPC Good Players Club is run by Katayama Masayuki and Baba Hirokazu and organizes public leagues and tournaments throughout Japan. Anyone who is a ‘productive member of society’, not a Jangoro (basically

Japan

Experience in Japan

Osamuko members seem to be prone to going to Japan. Deniz, ronronronronron, and now me. As some of you know, I went to Japan to play some mahjong. I’m in Amagasaki-shi right

jansou

Tokyo Jansou experience

I visited Tokyo from the 7th of March until the 21st and yes, I'm still in one piece and don't emit excessive amounts of radiation. Or at least I'd hope so. So as