Lichiliki Lyu from Japan won Globis U-20 Cup

GOGO Japan which is a name of Japan national team showed good result.

Japan is arising?

Japan won the world tournament in the end.

Lichiliki Lyu won against Shiji Lian and got the Globis title. Both players are Japanese players which is very new in current world Baduk situation.

Since 2000, Cho ChiHun(2003), Jang Shi(2005), Iyama Yuta(2013) and Lichiliki Lyu won the world championships. 1 years ago, Japan tried new system to improve their level and show better result in world championship. It is named GOGO Japan which is a name of Japan national team.

With this great new that Lichiliki Lyu won the Globis Cup in 2014, Japan is exciting with the expectation that Japan could compete evenly with Korea and China again.

Lichiliki Lyu won against Na Hun 5Dan from Korea and Shiji Lian 2Dan won against Li Jincheng 1Dan from China in the round 4. Both Japanese players won very top rookie players in Korea and China. This means that Japanese rookies' level is not lower than others in Korea and China.

Japan has been leading world Baduk in 20^th century. 

And Korea and China learned from Japan a lot. But in the last 15 years, Japan Baduk was just in downwards without any hope. There were only few players who got through the severe world tournament and got into round 8 and more.

The level among Korea, China and Japanese players are not very different. All information is on the internet and it is non-sense the level is different with given information.

Korea got shocked with the news that Japan won the world championship in 2014. Even it is just for rookies in Korea, China and Japan, it has much meaning for Japan and also for Korea.

It is said that Korea should also follow Japan's new system. Anyway it is good news that Japan is again here in world Baduk and compete with Korea and China. They exchange