All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Checkmate! My Shogi Club President can't be this Cute! Have you ever wanted to learn how to play shogi (Japanese chess), but found the pieces intimidating?

Madoka Kitao Shogi, Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game native to Japan. As each Shogi piece has kanji characters, it is not easy especially for kids and non-Japanese speakers to ...

The system of “joryu kishi,” which recognizes women as professional players of shogi, a traditional Japanese board game similar to chess, was established in 1974 by the Japan Shogi Association.

Shogi, a 20-piece board game popular in Japan, is similar to chess as two players alternate ... no Raion (“March comes in like a lion”), a Japanese manga dating back to 2007.

"Shogi" fans have a new destination to flock ... as well as rooms where players can use chairs instead of sitting in "seiza," or Japanese sitting style with the legs folding underneath them ...

Professional shogi players had exciting matches using warrior-style speech. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children.

Sugata Kentaro used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays ...

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger ...