23rd Kio Tournament (1997-1998)

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Final
8-dan Taku Morishita			Morishita
8-dan Keita Inoue	Inoue
8-dan Yasuaki Tsukada		Fukusaki		Iizuka
8-dan Bungo Fukusaki
9-dan Keiji Mori		Iizuka
5-dan Hiroki Iizuka			Iizuka		Goda
8-dan Osamu Nakamura		Takahashi
9-dan Michio Takahashi
9-dan Hifumi Kato		Goda
6-dan Masataka Goda			Goda
7-dan Eisaku Tomioka		Sato		Goda		Minami
8-dan Yasumitsu Sato
6-dan Hiroyuki Miura		Urano
7-dan Masahiko Urano	Urano		Moriuchi
9-dan Kunio Naito
8-dan Toshiyuki Moriuchi
8-dan Kenji Kobayashi			Minami
9-dan Kiyosumi Kiriyama	Minami
9-dan Yoshikazu Minami		Minami		Minami
9-dan Michio Ariyoshi
Ryuo Koji Tanigawa		Tanigawa
9-dan Hitoshige Awaji			Waki		Minami		Goda
7-dan Kenji Waki		Waki
8-dan Satoshi Murayama
9-dan Kunio Yonenaga		Yonenaga
8-dan Akira Shima			Maruyama
7-dan Tadahisa Maruyama		Maruyama		Maruyama
9-dan Teruichi Aono
8-dan Kazuyoshi Nishimura		Tanaka
9-dan Torahiko Tanaka	Tanaka		Nakahara
8-dan Noboru Tamaru
Eisei Judan Makoto Nakahara
Second Chance: Players who reach the Best 4 must lose twice to be eliminated.			Goda			Goda
			Maruyama		Iizuka
			Iizuka