Earlier today, I went to the Nihon Ki-in in Osaka to meet a friend and play some Go. While I was there, milling around the tiny bookstore they have, I happened to notice a small but colorful A4-sized flyer advertising for applicants to the Japanese Go Foundation’s “Go of the Future” (igo mirai) course. I’d [...]

I was in Tokyo yesterday and, with a just a little bit of spare time on my hands, I decided to locate and visit the main branch of the Japanese Go Association, called the Nihon Ki-in (日本棋院 in Japanese). Armed with only the address and a vague idea that it was somewhere between Tokyo station [...]