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top news photography Europe may host 1st WC Riichi. Maybe

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, January, 27th - There is a chance that a first world championship riichi mahjong will be held the years to come. And this might very well take place somewhere in Europe. This is stated in a report, written for the Dutch mahjong association. Picture: The Second European Mahjong Championship, Hanover, Germany, 2010. Read more…
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Mahjong is an old Chinese game, developed in the eighteen-eighties and based upon old card games. In the nineteen-twenties, mahjong was exported from China to Japan and the USA. In both coutries, mahjong was an immediate hit. Not only in the US, but everywhere in the Western world, people started playing mahjong. Besides, they bought mahjong attribute: mahjong stockings, mahjong ties, mahjong jewelry, mahjong furniture; they ate mahjong cakes and ate lots of them while playing mahjong.

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