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Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 ジュンイチロー, Koizumi Jun'ichirō) The Prime Minister of Japan, the main protagonist of the story's first arc.Armed with a natural talent for mahjong, passed down from his grandfather Matajiro Koizumi, Junichiro defends Japanese interests and integrity against the heads of the world's superpowers, even after his retirement from politics.
The World Riichi Championship (WRC) is a worldwide competition of Japanese Mahjong (also known as riichi) held every 3 years since 2014. The competition is nominally open to people of all ages, men and women alike.
Japanese mahjong tiles, including red dora tiles as well as season tiles which are used in variants. Japanese mahjong is usually played with 136 tiles. [7] The tiles are mixed and then arranged into four walls that are each two stacked tiles high and 17 tiles wide. 26 of the stacks are used to build the players' starting hands, 7 stacks are used to form a dead wall, and the remaining 35 stacks ...
On October 23, 2002, the first world championship was held in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan over three days, but this event was not counted as the first world championship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After the establishment of World Mahjong Organization (WMO) in 2006, the official first world championship was held in Chengdu, Sichuan , China on November 1 ...
There, she makes friends with other mahjong players and heads into the world of competitive mahjong. The episodes aired in Japan between April 6 and September 28, 2009 on TV Tokyo and concluded with 25 episodes. [2] The first DVD compilation volume was released on July 15, 2009 by Pony Canyon. The DVD release also included seven picture drama ...
The World Mahjong Sports Games (WMSG, Chinese: 世界麻将运动会) is played to determine the World Champion in the table game Mahjong held by Mahjong International League (MIL). Both men and women are eligible to contest this title, and the championship holds both of Individual event and Team event.
World Championship Domino Tournament [5] Individuals 1976 Chris Authement 2019 2020 One year Domino World Championship [6] Individuals 1995 Torsten Fornefeld 2023 2024 One year Mahjong: Mahjong: World Mahjong Championship: Individuals 2002 Zhou Yong 2019 2021 Two years Riichi mahjong: World Riichi Championship: Individuals 2014 Keijun Nara 2022 ...
The European Mahjong Association (EMA) was established at the general assembly during the first European Championship in the Netherlands in June 2005. [2] After this competition, EMA started holding European championships under international rules every 2 years, and started sanctioning Mahjong competitions which was held under international and Japanese rules.