Hello, I am Kaori Aoba. My target for the next five years is to contribute to society as a professional go player. I am grateful for the blessings I have enjoyed in my career so far and at the same time I would like to do whatever I can, little though it may be, to contribute to making society better.

By the way, my lifework is to spread the Nagoya dialect all over Japan. More than ten years have passed since I came to Tokyo, and I find that in this "foreign country" there are too many misconceptions about Nagoya. It's a matter of keen regret to me that Ieyasu Tokugawa did not make Nagoya the capital of Japan and Nagoya dialect the standard speech. I want to raise my voice and tell everyone how great Nagoya is.

Oh, my go target? . . . Nagoya people are naive; I couldn't tell you anything so embarrassing.