The Top Position tournament is decided in a best of five match with 10 hours thinking time per person and no komi except when the match would go all the way. Then the fifth game would be played with 4.5 komi (see the 3rd edition). The challenger comes from a league tournament where the games were also played without komi.

The Top Position tournament ran for six times and then was replaced by the Meijin and Judan titles.

Edition		Final		Details
6th	1961	Sakata Eio	Fujisawa Shuko	2-1-1
5th	1960	Fujisawa Shuko	Sakata Eio	3-1
4th	1959	Sakata Eio	Kitani Minoru	3-2
3rd	1958	Kitani Minoru	Shimamura Toshihiro	3-2
2nd	1957	Kitani Minoru	Sakata Eio	3-1
1st	1955	Sakata Eio		(league)

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