Background
Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996.
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Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996.
Keio University.
She firstly played Go at the age of 6 and she became a professional Go player in 1996. Umezawa supervised the production of Hikaru no Go, a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. She also became a consultant for the anime version of Hikaru no Go and hosted Go educational programs on Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai. Umezawa"s sensei was Masao Kato.
Umezawa is married to Shinya Yoshihara.
They have a son (born 2011).