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The Shinjin-O (新人王, King of the New Stars) is a Go competition.

[edit] Biography

The Shinjin-O is used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. The tournament started in 1976 and is only open to players under 7 dan and younger than 30 years of age. It is a single knockout tournament. In 2006, the tournament was changed to the Shinjin-O U-25 (King of the New Stars U-25) and the age restriction was lowered to 25 years old. The original thinking time was 4 hours, but along with the new age restriction, the thinking time was shortened to 3 hours. The winner's purse is 3,280,000 Yen ($29,000)

[edit] Past winners

Player	Years Held
Koichi Kobayashi	1976, 1977
Akira Ishida	1978, 1979
Goro Miyazawa	1980, 1985
O Rissei	1981
Satoshi Kataoka	1982
Norimoto Yoda	1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
Toshiya Imamura	1984
Hideki Komatsu	1988, 1992
Cho Sonjin	1991
Satoshi Yuki	1993
Tomoyasu Mimura	1994, 1995
Shinji Takao	1996
Kimio Yamada	1997
Keigo Yamashita	1998 - 2001
Cho U	2002
So Yokoku	2003
Tomochika Mizokami	2004
Kim Shushun	2005
Takehisa Matsumoto	2006
Iyama Yuta	2007
Uchida Schuhei	2008
Ri Ishu	2009