New Column: The Phoenix Cup Room

Starting in October ReachMahjong.com will run translations of the Japan Professional Mahjong League’s (JPML) Phoenix Cup winner’s monthly column.
This tradition started in 2010 and articles are written by the current title holder and updated on JPML’s website monthly. The content includes insite to games that the winner has played or generally what the author feels like writing.
The 2010 winner was Naoki Setokuma and he started writing in November of 2010. He wnet on to win again in 2011 and wrote monthly until January of 2012. In February of that year Masayoshi Ara won the title (not for the first time) and he has been writing monthly this year.
RM.com will run translations of this article biweekly from here on out, updated every Friday starting in October, 2012, intermittent with translations of other columns, interviews and blogs written by pro’s in Japan.
