I just got my first yakuman.

Kokushi Musou at a jansou near musashi-sakai, ten-go.

It was pretty intense.

Question to the floor: What was your first yakuman and under what circumstances did you agaru?

I\'ll see if I can\'t swing by this weekend and play a few hanchan.

Wow. I had no idea it was getting so much attention.

There doesn\'t appear to be a smiley with it\'s foot in it\'s mouth, so use your imagination.

There is another song (though not on the podcast) called Akagi, by Maximum the Hormone, which I\'m rather fond of. Its kinda nuts though.

I like the idea of using the ridiculous names of hands, and I agree that anything written in katakana should just be de-katakana-ized. As for the glossary of terms, I don\'t think anyone who doesn\'t already play mahjong would care to much to see George Bush and Koizumi throw down, so you are probab...

Reasonable.:)

Yukun: No worries about not being a native speaker, I didn\'t mean to be exclusive! And I\'m sure everyone who live in Japan and is on this forum speaks at least passable Japanese.
As more and more people join this forum, I\'m sure we will be able to organize plenty of games.

Well, nobody has ever actually cheated (to our knowledge), but if we did catch someone cheating, we probably wouldn\'t play with them anymore. The reasoning behind the penalty is that the prospect of having to pay ridiculous amounts of points (or money) should be a fairly strong deterrent. Of course...

It seems to me that any sleight of hand that involves leaving the wall in an altered state for any length of time is exceedingly risky, even if the others are distracted by their haipai. Though, the tricks that involve obscuring the opponent\'s view with the hand seem extremely difficult to catch, e...

Yeah Shibuya is a possibility. A friend and I were thinking about heading to Yokohama for Chinese New Years, so if that is easier, let me know.

Out of curiosity, how many people on this forum live in Japan?
It would be great to get some no-pressure, native language games together.

Any up to play at the \"Zoo\" in Kichijoji this weekend?