Miran Nohara

is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.

Early life and amateur shogi Nohara was born on August 4, 2003, in Toyama, Toyama. She learned how to play shogi from her father when she was five years old, and then started attending a shogi school in Kanazawa and receiving instruction from a former appentice professional 3-dan named when she was nine years old.

As an elementary school fifth-grade student, Nohara won the 7th in 2014, and then won the same tournament again as a sixth-grade student in 2015. After entering junior high school, Nohara won the 8th in 2016 as a junior high school first year student, and then the 43rd as a junior high school third-year student in 2018. Her victory in 2018 was the first time the tournament had been won by a female.

Nohara is the first to win the three years in a row; she won the 49th Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2017, the 50th Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2018 and the 51st Amateur Women's Meijin Tournament in 2019.

Women's shogi professional Nohara satisfied the criteria for the rank of women's shogi professional 2-kyū in July 2020 when she defeated Io Murota to advance to the quarterfinals of the 28th . She informed the Japan Shogi Association of her desire to turn professional, and the JSA announced on August 14, 2020, that it had accepted her application and would award her professional status as of September 1, 2020. Since part of the process for becoming a professional means having an existing professional shogi player as a sponsor, Nohara asked Toshiyuki Moriuchi to sponsor her and he agreed.

Playing style Nohara has stated that her favorite opening strategy is or the Kamaitachi opening.

2-kyū: September 1, 2020 1-kyū: January 18, 2021 1-dan: August 3, 2021 2-dan: December 13, 2024

Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.