Nine Break Association

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Nine Break Association (一般社団法人ナインブレイク協会) is a Japanese general incorporated association established 29 June 2012 to promote and distribute the single board game Nine Break (ナインブレイク), created in 1982. The association owns the underlying intellectual property, holding utility model registration 3172701 for the reversible-piece game device and trademark registrations 5478749 (JP) and 12011519-21 (China). Nine Break is a simple mathematical-calculation game that was adopted as a 'calculation game' in the Shogakukan school textbook for second-grade elementary arithmetic from 2015 to 2019, reaching …