Juri Kimura (木村 朱里, Kimura Juri, born July 11, 2008) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan.
She is the first person from Shiga Prefecture to become a professional shogi player.
[2][3] She performed well in a number of shogi tournaments for elementary school students, and then won the girl's division of the 42nd All Japan Junior High School Student Invitational Shogi Tournament [ja] as a first-grade junior high school student in August 2021.
[3][4][5] She subsequently entered the Kansai branch of the Japan Shogi Association's training group system under the tutledge of shogi professional Kenji Kobayashi and qualified for women's professional status after being promoted to training group B2 in April 2022.
Kimura is the first professional shogi player, regular or women's, from Shiga Prefecture.