The “2022 ZEN-NOH CUP TOP32 Fukuoka Tournament”, a table tennis event specially sponsored by JA ZEN-NOH, will be held on September 3rd and 4th at Axion Fukuoka in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. In the men’s and women’s singles finals held on the followingnoon of the 4th, the women’s Mima Ito (Starts) and the men’s Shunsuke Togami (Meiji University) won.
Men’s champion Togami (center) and women’s champion Ito (left) receive a bag of rice.
JA ZEN-NOH presented each of the winners with a bale (60 kg) of Genki Tsukushi rice grown in Fukuoka Prefecture, the host city, as a supplementary prize. When Togami received a life-size rice bag from Yukio Ikeda, an adviser of JA Zen-noh, warm applause broke out from the table tennis fans at the venue.
At the Zen-noh booth in the venue, ZEN-NOH had “Kasumi Ishikawa Curry” and “Kasumi Ishikawa Beef Bowl” supervised by Kasumi Ishikawa, who belongs to ZEN-NOH, as well as agricultural products and processed products from Fukuoka Prefecture. sell goods. The ZEN-NOH booth was bustling with visitors who came one following another to buy products to commemorate their visit. The new package “Kasumi Ishikawa Curry” will be available for general sale from late September.
In addition, at the ZEN-NOH booth, there will be a photo spot that reproduces the scene where Ishikawa enjoys a delicious salad at the end of the ZEN-NOH commercial “Tsunagaru Shokudo” released in March. At the photo spot, everyone from children to adults might be seen taking pictures with smiles.
Visitors taking pictures at photo spots
◎Conference results
＜Men＞
Winner: Shunsuke Togami (Meiji University)
Runner-up: Tomokazu Harimoto (IMG)
3rd place: Daito Shinozuka (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Winner: Mima Ito (Starts)
Runner-up: Kasumi Ishikawa (ZEN-NOH)
3rd place: Hina Hayata (Nippon Life Insurance)
