Yukari Yoshihara facts for kids

Yukari Yoshihara (吉原由香里) is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in since 1996. Her mentor is Masao Kato.

Records

Year	Notes
1985	8th place in the All Japan Women Amateur Championship.
1993	3rd place at the All Japan University Go Tournament.
1994	Victory at the All Japan Amateur Honinbo (本因坊) Tokyo Tournament (First female player to obtain this status). She also won at the International Amateur Pair Go Championship.
1995	3rd place in the All Japan Women Amateur Championship. In the same year, she obtained professional status.
1996	Graduated from Keio University.
1996, 1998, 2001-2004, 2015 and 2019	Personality at NHK Go programs at the NHK Educational TV.
2002	Finalist at the Women's Champion Title (女流最強位)
2004	Obtained 200 career wins. She was also awarded from the Television Go Program Manufacturing Assembly (テレビ囲碁番組制作者会賞)
2004 and 2007	Received the Journalist Club Award
2005	Served as the director of the International Go Federation
2007-2009	Obtained the Women's Board Master (女流棋聖). At the title match in 2008, she defeated Chiaki Mukai.
2010	Victory at the Professional Pair Go Championship & Finalist at the Women's Honinbo (女流本因坊) challenger determination tournament. She also worked for a Go class at Keio University.
2011	Finalist at the Women's Board Master title. In the next season (held in December 2011), she was the finalist of the Women's Board Master challenger determination tournament
2016	Finalist at the Women's Board Master title.

『あなたも夢中!レディース囲碁—なによりやさしくだれにでもわかる囲碁入門書の決定版生活実用シリーズ』 (The best Go introduction book for everyone), published from NHK, 1999 (authored with Mayu Hosaka and Izumi Kobayashi).
『梅沢由香里流すぐに打てる9路盤』(Start Go with a 9 $\times$ 9 board soon, Yukari Umezawa style), NHK Go Series, 2000.
『1から始める梅沢由香里の碁』(Yukari Umezawa's Go from first step), published from NHK, 2004.

She also authored some Go-related game software.