Past champions of Japan Chess Championship

Year held

Winner

1968

Yukio Miyasaka

1969

Yukio Miyasaka

1970

Yukio Miyasaka

1971

Yukio Miyasaka

1972

Gentaro Gonda

1973

Gentaro Gonda

1974

Kenji Hamada

1975

Gentaro Gonda

1976

Gentaro Gonda

1977

Gentaro Gonda

1978

Gentaro Gonda

1979

Gentaro Gonda

1980

Oda Kobun

1981

Oda Kobun

1982

Hiroyuki Nishimura

1983

Hiroyuki Nishimura

1984

Hiroyuki Nishimura

1985

Gentaro Gonda

kuroda paul

1986

Pineau Jack

1987

Suzuki Tomomichi

1988

Loren Schmidt

1989

Gentaro Gonda

1990

Sunga Jose

1991

anderson mack

1992

Domingo Ramos

1993

Pineau Jack

1994

Hiroyuki Nishimura

1995

Domingo Ramos

Hiroshi Takemoto

Tomohiko Matsuo

1996

Gentaro Gonda

1997

Gentaro Gonda

1998

Akira Watanabe

1999

Akira Watanabe

2000

Akira Watanabe

2001

Gentaro Gonda

2002

Simon Bibby

2003

Ryo Shiomi

Sakai Kiyotaka

2004

Sakai Kiyotaka

2005

Shinya Kojima

2006

Shinya Kojima

Masahiro Baba

2007

Shinsaku Uesugi

Shinya Kojima

2008

Shinya Kojima

2009

Sam Collins

2010

Ryosuke Nanjo

Shinya Kojima

2011

Ryuji Nakamura

Masahiro Baba

2012

Ryosuke Nanjo

2013

Junta Ikeda

2014

Ryosuke Nanjo

2015

Masahiro Baba

2016

Tran Thanh Tu

2017

Tsuneharu Noguchi

2018

Tran Thanh Tu

2019

Aoshima Mirai

2020

Tran Thanh Tu

2021

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2022

Aoshima Mirai

2023

Ryosuke Nanjo

2024

Ryosuke Nanjo

 

The organizer until 2018 is the Japan Chess Association (JCA).

At that time, all winners of the same points were all Japan champions.

Currently, there is only one All Japan Champion due to the tie-break.