OFFICIALS
 Hideo Otake (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nihon Ki-in)
 Seijiro Adachi (The Vicechairman of The Nihon Ki-in)
 Ei Kanda (Director of The Nihon Ki-in)
 Jun Matsui (President, The Shizuoka Shimbun
/ Shizuoka Broadcasting System) 
 Yoshinobu Ishikawa (Governor of Shizuoka)
 Hideyuki Harada (Mayor of Fukuroi)
 Yuki Shigeno (Secretary-general)
 Isamu Yagi
(Chairman of The Alliance of Shizuoka Branches of the Nihon Ki-in) 
 Wang Li Chen (Pro. 9-dan)
 Seiken Takanashi (Pro. 8-dan)
 Noriyoshi Yamada (Pro. 9-dan)
 IGF OFFICIALS
 Hiromu OKABE (Director of The Nihon Ki-in)
 Ru Nan WANG (President, Chinese Weiqi Association ,
Professional 8-dan of Chinese Weiqi Association) 
 Eduardo LOPEZ HERRERO (Translator)
 Ichiro YOSHIKUNI (Counselor, The Nihon Ki-in)
 Ei KANDA (Professional 9-dan of The Nihon Ki-in)
 Tanioka ICHIRO (President, Osaka University of Commerce)
 Young-Gu CHA (Officer, Korean Baduk Association)
 Korsak CHAIRASMISAK (President, Go Association of Thailand)
 Martin STIASSNY (Vice President, European Go Federation)
 Thomas HSIAN (Associate Dean, Rochester University)
 Maria Dolores PUERTA (Officer, Ibero-America Go Federation)
 Neville SMYTHE (Officer, Australian Go Association)
 Yuki SHIGENO (Professional 2-dan of The Nihon Ki-in)