Shogi is a member of the chess family popular in Japan.
Shogi is played on a 9x9 board with pieces inside the squares as in western chess. You can tell who they belong to from the way they are pointing. You can read an introduction to shogi in D.B. Pritchard's book, Popular Chess Variants . Read our review . There is also a whole book about shogi by Tony Hosking, published in England in 1996.