40th Meijin title

Preliminary A

See here.

Last Preliminary

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted from the League, and a qualification tournament with three groups determines which three new players enter the League.

Terayama Rei		Mizokami Tomochika B+2.5	Oba Junya W+0.5	Ko Iso B+R 2014-11-06
Mizokami Tomochika
Shuto Shun	Oba Junya B+R	Oba Junya B+3.5
Oba Junya
Kurahashi Masayuki
Takemiya Masaki		Takemiya Masaki W+1.5 2014-10-02	Ko Iso W+6.5 2014-10-23
Honda Kunihisa
Koyama Kuya		Ko Iso W+R 2014-09-18
Ko Iso
Yamada Noriyoshi		Yamada Noriyoshi B+1.5	Yamada Noriyoshi W+1.5	So Yokoku W+R 2014-11-06
Imamura Yoshiaki
Yamada Kimio	Yu Zhengqi W+R 2014-09-11	Matsumoto Takehisa W+R
Yu Zhengqi
Matsumoto Takehisa
Nakaonoda Tomomi		So Yokoku W+R	So Yokoku W+12.5 2014-10-23
So Yokoku
Kiyonari Tetsuya		Ryu Shikun W+R 2014-09-18
Ryu Shikun
Yamashiro Hiroshi		Yamashiro Hiroshi B+10.5	O Meien B+R 2014-10-23	Kanazawa Makoto W+1.5 2014-11-13
Yukawa Mitsuhisa
O Meien	O Meien W+R 2014-09-18	O Meien W+R 2014-10-02
Suzuki Shinji
Hikosaka Naoto
Kanazawa Makoto		Kanazawa Makoto W+R 2014-09-18	Kanazawa Makoto B+R 2014-10-16
Cho Chikun
Hane Yasumasa		Yuki Satoshi B+R 2014-09-25
Yuki Satoshi

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Kono Rin	5-3			B+R		W+R		W+R		W+R
2.	Yamashita Keigo	6-2	B+R			B+0.5		W+R		W+R
3.	Cho U	5-3		B+5.5			W+R		B+0.5		W+2.5
4.	Takao Shinji	6-2	W+R		B+2.5			W+R		W+R
5.	Hane Naoki	2-6		B+0.5		B+R			W+R		W+R
6.	Murakawa Daisuke	3-5	B+R		B+2.5		W+R			B+3.5
7.	So Yokoku	3-5		B+R		W+R		B+R			B+0.5
8.	Ko Iso	5-3	W+R		W+R		W+R		B+R
9.	Kanazawa Makoto	1-7		B+10.5		B+0.5		B+13.5		B+8.5

Kanazawa Makoto, Hane Naoki, and So Yokoku are demoted.

Playoff

Yamashita Keigo and Takao Shinji both had 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Takao Shinji.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2015-08-03	Yamashita Keigo	Takao Shinji	W+4.5	269	sgf

40th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2015-09-03,04	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+R	180	sgf
2015-09-17,18	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+0.5	259	sgf
2015-09-24,25	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+R	148	sgf
2015-10-05,06	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+R	227	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 4-0.