2-12-4 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan TEL:03-3502-6650 FAX:03-3581-2456 [Back] 8th Japan Championship (July 19-20-21.2008) The Japan Championship has been the top-level COR tournament and the only 3-day event of its kind in Japan ever since it started in 2001. Selected players from all over Japan compete for the championship in Tokyo.No table point, raw scores only. First day 4 games are played and 16 players advance to the second day. Second day The 16 players from the first day and 16 seeded players play 2 games. 16 players advance to the second round of another 2 games to compete for 8 places to advance to the third day. Third day (semifinal and final) The 8 players play 2 games and 4 advance to the final. What makes the tournament unique is the way the final is played; after 4 elimination rounds for two and a half days, 4 qualified players play 2 games without time limit. A scorekeeper sits right beside each player and records all distributed hands, picks, discards and winning hands. The mahjong cores are available (except for 2008 ones) at a cost of JPY500/game. [Japan Championship Winners] 　 Year Name 8th 2008 Kazuhiro Sato （佐藤和広） 7th 2007 Toru Kunihara （国原徹） 6th 2006 Takahiro Mihara （三原孝博） 5th 2005 Koji Idota （井戸田耕二） 4th 2004 Haruyuki Takamizawa （高見沢治幸） 3rd 2003 Tong Fei (China) （童飛）中国寧波 2nd 2002 Tomoki Higashidaira （東平知己） 1st 2001 Haruyuki Takamizawa （高見沢治幸） The 9th Japan Championship has been scheduled for July 18-19-20, 2009. 2008 8th Japan Championship Exciting games played at Kingkoh-so in Yurakucho, Tokyo 2008 8th Japan Championship winner Kazuhiro Sato (佐藤和広) from Tohoku Branch receives the cup from Yosuke Ide. The cup goes to the north of Japan for the first time in the tournament history. 　 [Back] Copyright (C) 2008-2009. JMSA. All Rights Reserved.