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Profiles of professional and amateur mahjong players

History of Japanese Mahjong

History of Japanese Mahjong

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 believe we

World Riichi Championship

Profile: Masaharu Tomotake

Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: * 24th Hououi (2004) * 2nd World Riichi Championship (2017) International Tournament Results: * 1st World Riichi Championship 2014 (6/120) * 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 (1/224) Ron2

World Riichi Championship

Profile: Hiroshi Yamai

Hiroshi Yamai made history in 2014 by winning the first WRC. Will he be able to defend his title in 2017?

Profile: Shigekazu Moriyama

Born in 1951, Onoda, Yamaguchi, Shigekazu Moriyama is the president of Japan Professional Mahjong League.

Interview with Simon from Chuuren Potos Jansou (Marseille [FR])

Last November, Simon proceeded to open a business: a jansou in Marseille, France. We had a chance to interview him back in November, and are releasing the content of the interview on osamuko.com. Our interview was conducted live on IRC in front of a digital audience: this implies that

Pro Player Interview: Kawamura Akihiro

Following the last article on Tsuchida Koushou [https://osamuko.com/tsuchida-koushou-homage/], I want to keep introducing professional players from Japan. Today’s article features Kawamura Akihiro (川村晃裕) from the 日本プロ麻雀協会 (Japanese Professional Mahjong Association), and I actually got to make him some questions for this article. Kawamura Akihiro (川村晃裕) was

Tsuchida Koushou Homage

As there are no posts for april yet, I thought I would write one, and I'd like to write about professional mahjong player Tsuchida Koushou (土田浩翔). This post will be about him. Source of the information is the Japanese Wikipedia [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E7%94%

Pechorin Style Doctrine

Do you ever feel like Tenhou is designed just to hold you back and that this game sucks, you have bad luck, you must be weak and you will never progress to the next dan (or kyuu) level? Then there is something wrong with your soul. You should read this.