Round 8 Pairings By Table
| Table | Player | | Opponent |
| 1 | Maruyama, Tomohiro | vs. | Sasanuma, Kiyoshi |
| 2 | Fukata, Takamasa | vs. | Miyasaka, Takeshi |
| 3 | Otsubo, Yuji | vs. | Higaki, Takao |
| 4 | Morikawa, Fumiyasu | vs. | Sato, Shinichi |
| 5 | Mori, Katsuhiro | vs. | Watanabe, Hiroshi |
| 6 | Nobushita, Jun | vs. | Maki, Koichiro |
| 7 | Sasage, Hiroki | vs. | Mitsuhashi, Takashi |
| 8 | Shvartsman, Alex | vs. | Hassaku, Jinpei |
| 9 | Shimada, Masatake | vs. | Koji, Kazumasa |
| 10 | Nowaki, Kazumi | vs. | Ogami, Kenji |
| 11 | Yoshii, Tatsuo | vs. | Kurosawa, Atsushi |
| 12 | Tajiri, Satoshi | vs. | Yamakawa, Yoichiro |
| 13 | Wada, Naoya | vs. | Ikeda, Kei |
| 14 | Momose, Kazuyuki | vs. | Higashino, Masayuki |
| 15 | Hoshino, Fumio | vs. | Fukuchi, Takahiro |
| 16 | Tsukamoto, Toshiki | vs. | Fukuya, Kenji |
| 17 | Sato, Manabu | vs. | Kris, Takashi |
| 18 | Komiya, Tadayoshi | vs. | Iino, Ryuji |
| 19 | Fujita, Kenichi | vs. | Omori, Kazuki |
| 20 | Abe, Kazufumi | vs. | Yamamoto, Yasuhide |
| 21 | Sonoda, Naohiro | vs. | Nakamura, Satoshi |
| 22 | Nonishi, Keiichiro | vs. | Ito, Ken |
| 23 | Wakuri, Akira | vs. | Sasaki, Yusuke |
| 24 | Kuroda, Masashiro | vs. | Seki, Yutaka |
| 25 | Watanabe, Hiroto | vs. | Doyama, Tsuyoshi |
| 26 | Fujita, Tsuyoshi | vs. | Hidaka, Ayumi |
| 27 | Chao, Peter | vs. | Ishida, Itaru |
| 28 | Okabayashi, Masanao | vs. | Kageyama, John Taro |
| 29 | Arita, Ryuichi | vs. | Harada, Hiroshi |
| 30 | Mori, Masaya | vs. | Mano, Kenji |
| 31 | Yamaguchi, Teruyuki | vs. | Furuta, Yuki |
| 32 | Hosokawa, Takanobu | vs. | Yuen Weng Foong, Lionel |
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