All Japan Student Go Federation


The All Japan Student Go Federation is a Japanese student Go organization for holding university Go championships. They have branches in each region. For similar organizations, there is the American Collegiate Go Association in the United States.
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Differences with other organizations

In Japan, most Go tournaments are operated by Nihon Ki-in or Kansai Ki-in. All Japan Student Go Federation and their branches are focused for university-based tournaments. They are not under direct control but have close relationship with them.

Tournaments

They are holding various tournaments with corporate sponsors.

World Students Go Oza Championship

This is a tournament to determine the student world champion since 2003. Representative players from each region will compete. The expected games in 2020 have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

All Japan University Go Championship

This is a team competition by each university representatives. Teams that have cleared regional preliminaries can attend. Each team can send only five members and substitute players. The sponsor is Yomiuri Shimbun

All Japan Female Student Honinbo

This is the only one tournament that limits participants by gender. The sponsor is Mainichi Shinbun. Some winners have eventually obtained professional status, or became top amateur players.
SeasonYearWinner
321997Tomomi Hoshino
331998Fu Hong Mei
34-351999-2000Mizuyo Kamasaki
37 and 402002 and 2005Miki Aragaki
382003Marie Unegawa
392004Kozue Takakura
412006Risa Sasago
422006Wang Jing Yi
432007Yin Shanchun
44-462008-2010Reiko Sekine
472011Noriko Horimoto
482012Go Risa
492013Yuka Kimoto
50-512014-2015Karin Tsukada
52-542016-2018Akiko Fujiwara
552019Moeka Tsuji

All Japan Student Go Best 10

This is the only one university championship that allows the attendance of high school and graduate students. It is held since 1964. The sponsor is The Asahi Shimbun.