Absolutely. According to [1], in Japan, 4.5M people play Mahjong (in Japan you can assume Mahjong means Riichi Mahjong), 5M people play Shogi, and only 1.5M pl

Absolutely. According to [1], in Japan, 4.5M people play Mahjong (in Japan you can assume Mahjong means Riichi Mahjong), 5M people play Shogi, and only 1.5M play Go. Interestingly 21M (!) people play family games, which means party video games, e.g. Mario Kart. [1]: https://note.com/hasimo1000year/n/n06989a252aa2 https://note.com/hasimo1000year/n/n06989a252aa2, it's a random Mahjong player's blog, but it quotes the data allegedly from [2] [2]: https://www.jpc-net.jp/research/list/leisure.html https://www.jpc-net.jp/research/list/leisure.html