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8th Old Meijin title

The first 14 years (1962-1975) the Meijin Title was sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper. This period is known as "Old Meijin" or "Meijin (Yomiuri)". In 1976 the Asahi newspaper took over, and a new numbering started from 1.

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches (in some order).

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Rin Kaiho	6-2				W+1	W+	W+	W+
2.	Sakata Eio	4-4	W+			B+2		B+	W+R
3.	Hashimoto Shoji	5-3	W+	W+R						W+	B+2
4.	Fujisawa Shuko	6-2			B+3		W+5	W+1			W+R
5.	Kubouchi Shuchi	3-5		B+	W+11					W+	B+2
6.	Fujisawa Hosai	6-2			W+		W+R			W+	W+
7.	Maeda Nobuaki	0-8			B+	B+R	B+	B+
8.	Kada Katsuji	2-6	B+R	W+0		B+R			W+
9.	Otake Hideo	4-4	B+R	B+R					W+	W+

8th Old Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1969-08-21,22	Rin Kaiho	Takagawa Kaku	B+R	sgf
2	1969-08-29,30	Takagawa Kaku	Rin Kaiho	B+R	sgf
3	1969-09-09,10	Rin Kaiho	Takagawa Kaku	W+8	sgf
4	1969-09-18,19	Takagawa Kaku	Rin Kaiho	W+R	sgf
5	1969-10-02,03	Rin Kaiho	Takagawa Kaku	B+R	sgf
6	1969-10-13,14	Takagawa Kaku	Rin Kaiho	W+2	sgf

Rin Kaiho won with 4-2.