Career
Her real name is Fumiko Itabashi (板橋史子). She is known not only for competing in Mahjong, but for writing and instructing. Debut She debuted as a professional mahjong player of Saikouisen Japan Professional Mahjong Association.
At this time she used her real name.
A few years later, she moved to Japan Professional Mahjong Association, another professional organization. At this time, she started using the name of "Mai Hatsune", the stage name.
The San Queen Cup is the television tournament promoted by San Group which was managing 16 mahjong parlors in Japan. San Group is currently managing 26 mahjong parlors.
In August, She participated the Final of 2002 World Mahjong Championship Women Players Japanese National Qualifying tournament in Kanda, Tokyo, but she lost.
Winning world titles On June 25, 2005, she participated the first Open European Mahjong Championship in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her final rank was 2nd place. On December 31, 2005, she participated the team competition "Mahjong Battle Royal 2006" promoted by Mondo21.
This is a special television match among 4 teams between the end of year and the beginning of the year.
She was offered and joined "Women Mondo21 team". 1st Open European Mahjong Championship 2005 2nd place (June 25, 2005).
