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Also unlike chess, captured pieces can be turned around and redeployed by the capturer.\n </p>\n <p>\n Shogi is frequently noted in descriptions of life in the Japanese American concentration camps in combination with go, another two-person board game. An account in an official\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/War_Relocation_Authority/\" title=\"War Relocation Authority\">\n War Relocation Authority\n </a>\n publication suggests that go was the more popular game, which seems to supported by other anecdotal accounts.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n In his internment memoir, Issei journalist\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Kumaji_Furuya/\" title=\"Kumaji Furuya\">\n Kumaji Furuya\n </a>\n wrote that he and a friend would joke before the war that should Japan and the U.S. go to war, the two of them would end up interned on Molokai playing shogi. \"Fate works in strange ways,\" he wrote, \"for we were eventually interned in the same New Mexico camp [Santa Fe] where we did get to play shogi games together.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Furuya, Suikei.\n <i>\n Haisho tenten\n </i>\n . Honolulu: Hawai taimususha, 1968. Translated by Tatsumi Hayashi as\n <i>\n Internment from Camp to Camp\n </i>\n . Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, forthcoming, 2015.\n </p>\n <p>\n Nishimoto, Richard.\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/insideamericanco00nish\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Inside An American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at Poston, Arizona\n </i>\n .\n </a>\n Ed. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.\n </p>\n <p>\n United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority.\n <i>\n Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers\n </i>\n . Washington, D.C.: [1946].\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority,\n <i>\n Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers\n </i>\n , [1946], 168.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Suikei Furuya (pseudonym),\n <i>\n Haisho tenten\n </i>\n (Honolulu: Hawai taimususha, 1964). The quotation is from an English translation by Tatsumi Hayashi, which will be published by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i in 2015. In this account, he describes a system of tournaments for go but not for shogi, resulting in his playing more go while interned despite having played more shogi before the war.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153644\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.012 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.017 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 81/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 514/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 58/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1137/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 12.340 1 -total\n 19.18% 2.367 1 Template:Reflist\n 10.87% 1.341 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 10.58% 1.306 1 Template:Published\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2594-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153644 and revision id 30477\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Definitions/" ], "sources": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-ddr-densho-37-428-1/" ], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Brian%20Niiya/" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [ "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-478/objects/" ], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Shizue%20Iwatsuki/", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Shoji%20Nagumo/" }{ "url_title": "Shogi", "title_sort": "shogi", "links": { "json": "