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Japan: Typhoon Nakri Brings Strong Winds to Southern Izu Islands

Typhoon Nakri made its closest approach to the southern Izu Islands on Monday morning, October 13, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.

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US: Unoccupied Homes in Buxton, NC Collapse Amid Rough Seas From Offshore Hurricanes 2

On Tuesday, September 30, at least five unoccupied oceanfront homes in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic due to rough surf driven by offshore hurricanes Humberto and Imelda. Another home fell the following morning, bringing the total to six this week and 18 on Hatteras Island since 2020. No injuries were reported, but authorities closed parts of Cape Hatteras National Seashore due to dangerous debris.

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'Go Master' Wu gets China's peace contribution award

ODAWARA, Japan - Chinese-born "Go Master" Wu Qingyuan, who has the highest "9 dan" rank in "Go" or Japanese chess, receives the Peace and Development Contribution Award from the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2014.

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Polish woman to join professional shogi training program

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Karolina Styczynska, a 22-year-old Polish college student. The Japan Shogi Association said June 23, 2013, that Styczynska has passed an examination to join a program to train professional female players of the game, known as Japanese chess. She is the first foreign woman to join the Kenshukai training program. So far, no foreign woman has become a professional shogi player.

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Watai speaks about former chess champion Fischer

TOKYO, Japan - Miyoko Watai, acting president of the Japan Chess Association, speaks about her decision to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 19. Fischer, 61, has been held in a Japanese detention center since July after being taken into custody at Narita airport because he had what U.S. officials say was an invalid passport.

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Chess icon Fischer says U.S. citizen no more

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Suzuki (C), a lawyer for former world chess champion Bobby Fischer looks to John Bosnitch (R), representative of the committee to free Bobby Fischer, during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 6. At left is miyako Watai, president of Japan Chess Association. Suzuki said Fischer, currently fighting Japanese and U.S. authorities who accuse him of traveling with an invalid passport, wants to renounce his U.S. citizenship and took his case to court the same day.

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Watai speaks about former chess champion Fischer

TOKYO, Japan - Miyoko Watai, acting president of the Japan Chess Association, speaks about her decision to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 19. Fischer, 61, has been held in a Japanese detention center since July after being taken into custody at Narita airport because he had what U.S. officials say was an invalid passport. (Kyodo)

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Event celebrates Shogi master Tanigawa for receiving honorary award

Japanese chess master Koji Tanigawa (2nd from L), head of the Japan Shogi Association, joins other people in cracking open a barrel of sake during an event in Kobe, western Japan, on April 19, 2015, to celebrate his receipt of the Medal with Purple Ribbon. He is the 12th shogi player to receive the award given to people who have contributed to academic, artistic and other fields. At far left is "rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi VI. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Award-winning pro 'shogi' chess player aims at interesting matches

Professional "shogi" player Kenji Imaizumi shows the Happy News Person Award received from the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association at a ceremony in Osaka, western Japan, on April 6. Imaizumi, the youngest player of the Japanese chess game to have been certified as a professional since the end of World War II, said he will keep aiming to play interesting matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shogi player calls for suspension over cheating claims to be lifted

Hiroyuki Miura, a top-ranked player of shogi, or Japanese chess, seen in this undated photo, says on Nov. 7, 2016 that the Japan Shogi Association should withdraw an order suspending him from competition while it investigates allegations of software-assisted cheating. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14-year-old pro shogi player beats oldest top player in debut match

Sota Fujii, who became the youngest-ever professional player of shogi, a chess-like Japanese board game, in October at the age of 14 years and 2 months, smiles after beating Hifumi Kato, 76, the oldest top-ranked shogi player in his debut match in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2016. The age gap between the two players was the widest in an official shogi match, according to the Japan Shogi Association. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chess icon Fischer says U.S. citizen no more

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Suzuki (C), a lawyer for former world chess champion Bobby Fischer looks to John Bosnitch (R), representative of the committee to free Bobby Fischer, during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 6. At left is miyako Watai, president of Japan Chess Association. Suzuki said Fischer, currently fighting Japanese and U.S. authorities who accuse him of traveling with an invalid passport, wants to renounce his U.S. citizenship and took his case to court the same day. (Kyodo)