Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) lost 7-3 to Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan; Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) lost 7-3 to Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. Takeda lost 6-4 to Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;
 
Takeda finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takeda defeated Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) 9-5, then won 9-1 against Ryo Wakabayashi (Okayama, JPN). Takeda went on to lose 4-3 against Hiroki Hasegawa (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
Takeda ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.