Japanese Mahjong Japanese Mahjong Japanese Mahjong (Japanese: 麻雀, 麻将 or マージャン; "mājan"), also known as Rīchi Mahjong, is a variation of mahjong. While the basic rules to the game are retained, the variation features a unique set of rules such as "rīchi" and the use of "dora". The main mahjong article contains general terms, but only English and Japanese terms are used here. Terms like "chow," "pung," and "kong" are not used in this variation, yet their functions are still used. Instead, they are referred to in Japanese as "chī", "pon", and "kan". In 1924, a soldier named Saburo Hirayama brought the
Yong Pung How Yong Pung How Yong Pung How (; born 11 April 1926) , , is a former Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006. Prior to his judicial career, he was a lawyer, banker and senior government official. Since 2010, he has been the Chancellor of the Singapore Management University. An ethnic Singaporean Chinese with Malaysian Chinese descent and of Hakka ancestry with roots in Dabu, Meizhou, Guangdong, China although being born and brought up in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Yong received early education at the Victoria Institution high school. He then went on to Cambridge