Strategy board game no longer a man's world
By DANIEL KRIEGER
Special to The Japan Times
On a chilly Sunday afternoon in January in
downtown Osaka, a group of young Japanese women in kimono were drinking
green tea and eating chocolate cake while excitedly chattering away. The
topic was their respective rankings in the ancient Asian mind sport of
go. Later, when the talk died down, six of them formed three pairs who
sat facing one another at small tables lined up in rows. And then —
silence. The only sounds were soft classical music playing in the
background, punctuated by the clinking of polished black and white
stones when one of the women dipped her hand into a bowl to pick one up
and place it on the board with a gentle tap.
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