All Japan Championship (pool)

The Japan Open (also: All Japan Championship, All Japan Open Championship) is an annual pool event in the discipline of Nine-ball. However, from 2012 to 2015, the men's tournament was played in the discipline of Ten-ball. Ko Pin-yi is the most successful player having won the tournament three times, in 2011, 2013 and 2016. Akimi Kajitani has won the women's tournament the most times, winning twice in 2000 and 2013.

Tournament history

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Men's
Year Location Winner Score Runner-up Semi-finalists
2000 Tokyo Japan Satoshi Kawabata United States Johnny Archer Japan Kunihiko Takahashi
Japan Akikumo Toshikawa
2001 Amagasaki United States Corey Deuel Finland Mika Immonen Unknown
Unknown
2005 Unknown Philippines Efren Reyes Philippines Rodolfo Luat Japan Hidenobu Takanami
Japan Masaaki Tanaka
2007 Chinese Taipei Wu Jia-qing Japan Tōru Kuribayashi Japan Hayato Hijikata
Germany Ralf Souquet
2008 Amagasaki Finland Mika Immonen Philippines Ronato Alcano Philippines Antonio Gabica
Japan Naoyuki Ōi
2010 Germany Thorsten Hohmann Chinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung Japan Yukio Akakariyama
Finland Mika Immonen
2011 Chinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi China Wu Jia-qing Chinese Taipei Chang Yu-lung
Japan Hiroshi Takenaka
2012 Chinese Taipei Chang Jung-lin Chinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun Philippines Johann Chua
Chinese Taipei Fu Che-wei
2013 Chinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11:10 Chinese Taipei Chang Jung-lin Germany Thorsten Hohmann
Philippines Johann Chua
2014 Philippines Raymund Faraon 11:8 Japan Naoyuki Ōi China Li Hewen
Chinese Taipei Chang Yu-lung
2015 Philippines Johann Chua 11:7 Philippines Ronato Alcano United States Shane Van Boening
China Han Haoxiang
2016 Chinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11:3 Philippines Jeff de Luna Germany Thorsten Hohmann
Chinese Taipei Cheng Yu-hsuan
2017 Philippines Johann Chua 11:3 Philippines Jundel Mazon  China Liu Hao Tao
Chinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung

Ladies
Year Location Winner Score Runner-up Semi-finalist
2000 Tokyo Japan Akimi Kajitani Japan Kyoko Sone South Korea Chung Young-sook
Japan Setsuko Kubota
2001 Amagasaki Chinese Taipei Liu Shin-mei England Allison Fisher unknown
unknown
2005 Unknown China Zhou Mengmeng Japan Miyuki Fuke unknown
unknown
2007 Chinese Taipei Chang Shu-han Japan Akio Otani China Fu Xiaofang
China Han Yu
2008 Amagasaki China Pan Xiaoting Chinese Taipei Chou Chieh-yu Chinese Taipei Chang Shu-han
Japan Chihiro Kawahara
2010 Chinese Taipei Lin Hsiao-chi Japan Keiko Yukawa Japan Chihiro Kawahara
Japan Maki Kimura
2011 China Chen Siming Japan Junko Mitsuoka Chinese Taipei Chan Ya-ting
Japan Akimi Kajitani
2012 Chinese Taipei Chou Chieh-yu Chinese Taipei Tan Ho-yun Japan Maki Kimura
China Li Jia
2013 Japan Akimi Kajitani 9:7 Japan Chihiro Kawahara Chinese Taipei Chou Chieh-yu
Chinese Taipei Tsai Pei-jen
2014 Chinese Taipei Wu Zhi-ting 9:3 China Liu Shasha Chinese Taipei Tsai Pei-jen
Japan Chihiro Kawahara
2015 South Korea Kim Ga-young 9:2 Japan Chihiro Kawahara Japan Maki Kimura
Japan Makiko Takagi
2016 Chinese Taipei Chen Ho-yun 9:8 Japan Chihiro Kawahara Chinese Taipei Wei Tzu-chen
China Chen Siming

Japan Open

In addition to the All Japan Open another tournament known as the Japan Open played in 2009 and 2010 in the New Pia Hall was held.[2][3]

Winners of this tournament were the Philippines Francisco Bustamante and Ramil Gallego in the men's event[4][5] as well as the Taiwanese women Tan Hsiang-ling and Chou Chieh-yu were winners of the women's event.[6][7] Chou Chieh-yu is the only player to have won both events.

The prize money of the Japan Open was significantly lower than that of the All Japan Open. During 2010, at the All Japan Open men's event, the prize purse was a total of $82,000 of which the winner received about $ 24,000,[8] The winner of the Japan Open 2010 received only $17,000 in prize money, at just under $42,000 in total prize money. In the women's at the Japan Open 2010 about $11,000 were distributed, with the winner receiving $4,400 dollars, at the All Japan Open the same year, however, were distributed over $21,000, of which the winner received about $7,000.[9]

References
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