In his book titled “Kuyashigaru Chikara” (The ability to feel regret), professional shogi player Masataka Sugimoto explains what makes the board game fascinating: “If I may oversimplify, you win a ...

"Shogi" wunderkind Sota Fujii showed his mettle in winning the deciding game of the Eio championship on Sept. 13, becoming ...

The Xbox Live Arcade finds itself with another board game this week. This one, though, you probably haven't played before. Shotest Shogi brings a chess-like game to the Live Arcade that is big ...

Former Japanese shogi master Hifumi Kato died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on Thursday. He was 86. The native of Fukuoka Prefecture was the first junior high school student to become a ...

Persona 5 is the most recent entry in a line of deep JRPG video games that incorporate a unique mash-up of traditional RPG action, dating sims, urban fantasy, and Jungian psychology. An important ...

After a record-breaking streak of 29 shogi victories in a row, Sota Fujii's fairytale has come to an end -- at least for the moment. On July 2, the 14-year-old prodigy was finally beaten, by ...

Shogi is in the midst of an unprecedented boom. Kishi Fujii Souta no Shogi Training is a full-fledged shogi training game supervised by professional shogi player Souta Fujii, who is a key figure of ...

The crowd of San Franciscans, some scurrying and some loitering, around Ellis and Mason streets Wednesday seemed oblivious to the intense, high-stakes drama unfolding in a tiny hotel conference room ...

A "human shogi" event was held in the city of Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, on April 11. About 46,000 people came to the venue ...

To gain some intelligence points, in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and probably in real life too, you could always try your hand at Shogi — Japanese chess. Plus there is some pretty cool gear you can ...