According to Japan Shogi Association, the top 10 money makers by playing and winning shogi games for the year 2007 are found in the list below. The first column is showing the standing. The second one is the name of the players. The third is the money earned by playing and winning shogi games last year(unit = ten thousand yen). The forth is that of the year 2006(unit = ten thousand yen). The last one is showing the standing of the players last year. Why Watanabe exceeds Sato and Moriuchi is due to the special match with Bonanza, a computer program according to his weblog. in Japanese.
| 1 | Habu Yoshiharu | 8,132 | 9,376 | 1 |
| 2 | Watanabe Akira | 8,032 | 5,654 | 4 |
| 3 | Sato Yasumitsu | 7,927 | 7,576 | 2 |
| 4 | Moriuchi Toshiyuki | 6,721 | 6,536 | 3 |
| 5 | Fukaura Koichi | 3,392 | 1,864 | 12 |
| 6 | Goda Masataka | 2,994 | 2,159 | 9 |
| 7 | Kubo Toshiaki | 2,680 | 1,485 | 14 |
| 8 | Kimura Kazuki | 2,384 | 1,925 | 11 |
| 9 | Tanigawa Koji | 2,350 | 3,205 | 5 |
| 10 | Maruyama Tadahisa | 1,953 | 3,116 | 6 |
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