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Mihoko Iwasa
Japanese shogi player (born 2005) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mihoko Iwasa (岩佐 美帆子, Iwasa Mihoko; born August 15, 2005) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-kyū.
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Early life and training group player
Iwasa was born in Gifu, Japan on August 15, 2005.[1] She learned how to play shogi as a fourth-grade student due the influence of her older brothers.[2][3] She subsequently began attending a local shogi school and had become good enough to enter the Tōkai branch of the Japan Shogi Association's training group system as a fifth-grade elementary school student.
Iwasa qualified for women's professional status after being promoted to training group B2 in December 2021.[3] Needing a sponsor to become a women's professional, her first choice was shogi professional Masayuki Toyoshima.[3] A meeting between the two was arranged by a mutual acquaintance and Toyoshima agreed to take her on as his first apprentice.[3][4] She applied for women's professional status and her application was accepted by the Japan Shogi Association; she was granted women's professional status on February 1, 2022.[2] As of February 2022,[update] she is a senior high school student and Uguisudani Junior and Senior High School in Gifu.[2]
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Women's shogi professional
Promotion history
Iwasa's promotion history is as follows.[5]
- 2-kyū: February 1, 2022
- 1-kyū: April 1, 2023
Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.
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