People that played Go at the club during 2025:
Bryan, Masa, Andrew, Joe, Guy, David, Andy, Sid, Ayal, Yoshimasa, Brian, Chris, Will, Irene, Chung Sik, Victoria, Loa, Hyungsub, Alex, Keith
Out of town visitors:
Naoki (France), Stephane (France), Dean (Korea), Jeff (Wyoming), Doug (WA)
Meeting Places
January to December 2025 - Club continues to meet at its Salt Lake location on Saturday afternoons.
January to March 2025 - Club opened the 2025 meeting at South Shore Market on Thursday nights but discontinued meeting after March 2025.
Events:
January 11, 2025 - Participated in the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii 32nd New Year's Ohana Festival. 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 has been invited to the Moanalua High School World Language Festival. 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 be 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.
Significant events:
UH Go Club is officially recognized as an organization at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus. It will have 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 will be in November 2025.
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.
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 is planning to teach a 6 week City and County of Honolulu Parks and Recreation Go class for youths only. Joe Goo is assisting.
Check out our facebook page for pictures of our weekly meetings. facebook.com/honolulu.goclub