According to Larry Kaufman's post to shogi-l, the winner of 3rd Shogi World Championship which was held on November 13 through 15 in New York is Paul Ogi.
The convincing winner was 24 year old Paul Ogi. He lives in Japan but holds US citizenship; his father is Japanese but his mother is American. He recently finished in the top eight in the Japanese Amateur Meijin tournament, holds a 2600 (6 Dan) Shogi Club 24 rating, and has a 1-1 score in formal games with pros. It is quite amazing to me that no one in the west seemed to be aware that a U.S. citizen had reached the level of the very top of the Amateur world in Japan
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(Addition)
I found his profile in Japanese and photo in the website of the joint association of branches of JSA in Saitama prefecture.
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