People that played Go at the club during 2025:
Bryan, Masa, Andrew, Joe, Guy, David, Andy, Sid, Ayal, Kanoa, Hongguang, Cameron, Yoshimasa, Brian, Chris, Will, Irene, Chung Sik, Victoria, Loa, Hyungsub, Alex, Keith, Devon, James, Hye, Ben, James, Eunice, Rusae, Ruo, In Whan, Stacey, Royce, Lily, Korben, Justin, John, Chloe, Brady, Ron, Farren, In Whan, Julien, Josh, Camille, Gabriel.
Out of town visitors:
Naoki (France), Stephane (France), Dean (Korea), Jeff (Wyoming), Doug (WA), Vignesh (CA), Jerry (CA), Soren (CA), Megumi (Japan), Ian (CA), David (CO)
Meeting Places
January to December 2025 - Club continues to meet at its Salt Lake location on Saturday afternoons.
January to March 2025 - Club started meeting at South Shore Market on Thursday nights from Oct 2024 but discontinued meeting after March 2025 due to low attendance.
Events:
January 11, 2025 - Participated in the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii 32nd New Year's Ohana Festival (https://www.jcchawaii.org/events/nyof2025). This is an annual event celebrating the New Year with the public with Japanese culture and food. Introduced event attendees to the game of Go and played 9x9 games with them. This is our 5th participation in this event.
March 28, 2025 - Honolulu Go Club participated in the Moanalua High School World Language Festival (https://www.moanaluahs.org/apps/events2/event.jsp?eREC_ID=3882770&d=2023-03-31&id=0). Introduced event attendees to the game of Go and played 9x9 games with them. This is our 1st participation in this event.
April 5, 2025 - Honolulu Go Club participated in the 8th Onizuka Day of Exploration at University of Hawaii, West Oahu. This event (https://www.onizukaday.com/pages/onizuka-day-of-exploration) is sponsored by the Aloha Council and the Boy Scouts of America and the theme is STEM. Most attendees were youths from kindergarten to high school seniors. Introduced event attendees to the game of Go and played 9x9 games with them. This is our 1st participation in this event.
August 2, 2025 - Honolulu Go Club participated in the 21st Korean Festival (https://www.hawaiikoreanchamber.org/events/21st-korean-festival) at the Honolulu Hale Civic Grounds. Introduced event attendees to the game of Go and played 9x9 games with them. This is our 3rd participation in this event.
November 7, 2025 - University of Hawaii Japan Culture Day. Introduced event attendees to the game of Go and played 9x9 games with them. The club has participated in this annual event since 2012 and this is our 12th participation in this event.
Significant events:
UH Go Club is officially recognized as an organization at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus. It had its first meeting on Thursday, January 23.
Sid Kobashigawa has been invited to speak about the significance of Go at Honouliuli Internment Camp as part of the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of Honouliuli National Park. This presentation was rescheduled due to the federal government shutdown.
Myungwan Kim and Sid Kobashigawa started a non-profit organization called the Hawaii Go-Baduk Camps (https://www.hawaiigocamp.com/) to hold an annual Youth Go Camp in Honolulu, Hawaii. First camp is scheduled for July 2026.
First club tournament was held every Saturday in the month of October. There were 14 participants. Tournament participants could play anyone one time over the 4 Saturdays. Best 4 records would play in a single elimination playoff tournament. Seeding in the tournament was 1. Devon, 2. Julien, 3. Hongguang, 4. Andrew. 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. Andrew who is 10yo won the playoffs and became the tournament winner.
Julien formed a Friday night Go group at the University of Hawaii East West Center dorms/apartments in August 2025. First night group had over 20 students. Check "other Hawaii Go Club" tab for more info.
Andrew is teaching his classmates at Manoa Japanese School how to play Go. (November 2025) Andrew has received school approval to make Go an official school activity.
Honolulu Go Club worked with the Governor's office to bring the Kisei finals game 1 to Honolulu. Yomiuri has decided to hold Kisei game 1 at the Waikiki Prince Hotel January 22-23, 2026. Yomiuri is sponsoring many other Go events such as Go classes, Simultaneous games with professionals, friendship matches between Japanese amateurs in singles and pair Go with western Go players.
Go Education:
Myungwan Kim 9P teaches Go weekly to youths at Mun Lun Chinese School and at Hongwanji Mission School.
Sid Kobashigawa starts teaching Go at Pacific Buddhist Academy every Wednesday afternoon after school Spring semester and Fall semester.
Sid Kobashigawa taught a 5 week City and County of Honolulu Parks and Recreation Go class that ran from January 29 to February 26. Guy Nguyen-Phuoc assisted.
Sid Kobashigawa taught a 6 week City and County of Honolulu Parks and Recreation Go class for youths only. Joe Goo assisted.
Check out our facebook page for pictures of our weekly meetings. facebook.com/honolulu.goclub