Статистика распространения Го в Японии:
The recent 2005 Japanese "Leisure White Paper" shows a rapid fall to by far the lowest level of go players in Japan since records began. The go playing population is now put at just 3.5 million, or 3.2% of the population. This compares with figures of 4.5 million and 4.1% in 2004 which were seen as the result of the height of the Hikaru no Go boom (HnG ended its TV run in March 2003 and magazine serialisation in May 2003). But it also compares to a peak of 12 million players (around 14%) in 1981, though figures were calculated in a different, and probably highly inflated, way then.
Using the modern poll-based method, it would seem that the go population over the last 20 years has declined from a more realistic 7.9% to 3.2%.
More alarming is the breakdown of the figures by age (males still dominate over females). In 2004 13.7% of people aged 10-20, i.e. the bulk of the Hikaru boomers, claimed to play. In 2005 this was only 4.3% - and no females!. There was also a sharp fall among those in their 20s. But the number of players in their 50s doubled compared with 2004. Go in Japan is now very much a game of men in their 50s and 60s - as it has been for a long time, only more so now.
This seems to suggest that the Japanese go authorities have been unable to sustain the Hikaru boom amongs the young.
Александр Динерштейн,
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