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Tournament name Tokyo Seimitsu Cup Women's Saikyo (Strongest) Tournament
Sponsor Tokyo Seimitsu Co.,LTD , The Nihon Ki-in
Support  -
Special assistance  -
Assistance  -
Special cooperation Go World
Cooperation  -
Winner’s prize 4,500,000 (Japanese yen)
Title match, play-off best-of-three title match
Tournament system Tournament with 32 players.
Time allowance Final, main tournament: 1 hours each.
Byo-yomi After using up one’s time, 60 seconds a move.
Komi 6.5
Qualification for participation Women titleholders, top players in women’s prize money rankings
Rules for retaining places and seeds  -
Year of founding 1998


Term Year Winner Wins and Losses Opponent Komi
10 2008 Kato Keiko 2-0 Hsieh Yi Min 6.5
9 2007 Suzuki Ayumi   Aoki Kikuyo 6.5
8 2006 Hsieh Yi Min   Konishi Kazuko 6.5
7 2005 Kobayashi Izumi   Konishi Kazuko 6.5
6 2004 Shinkai Hiroko   Okada Yumiko 6.5
5 2003 Suzuki Ayumi   Nakazawa Ayako 6.5
4 2002 Okada Yumiko   Umezawa Yukari 5.5
3 2001 Aoki Kikuyo   Yoshida Mika 5.5
2 2000 Kato Tomoko   Aoki Kikuyo 5.5
1 1999 Shinkai Hiroko   Yashiro Kumiko 5.5