Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996.

Umezawa supervised the production of Hikaru no Go, a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

In 2002 she was starring in her own videogame Umesawa Yukari no Igo Seminar (梅沢由香里の囲碁セミナー) on Xbox - a Go simulator.

She also became a consultant for the anime version of Hikaru no Go and hosted Go educational programs on NHK.

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