Below the games from the Preliminary A part of the 40th Meijin tournament. The first group of games is from Nihon Ki-in, Tokyo branch. The second group of games is from Nihon Ki-in, Kansai branch. The third group of games is from Kansai Ki-in.

Nihon Ki-in, Tokyo branch
Han Zenki | Komatsu Hideki 6/26 | Oba Junya 7/24
Komatsu Hideki
Kim Sujun | Oba Junya 6/26, B+6.5
Oba Junya
Kobayashi Satoru | Matsumoto Takehisa 7/17, W+1.5 | Matsumoto Takehisa 8/28, W+1.5
Matsumoto Takehisa
Mochizuki Kenichi | Mochizuki Kenichi 7/17
Ogaki Yusaku
Suzuki Shinji | Suzuki Shinji 7/14 | Suzuki Shinji 9/4, B+4.5
Sun Zhe
Yoda Norimoto | Yoda Norimoto 6/12, B+R
Obuchi Kotaro
Motoki Katsuya | Sakai Maki 6/26 | Koyama Kuya 7/24, B+R
Sakai Maki
Uchida Shuhei | Koyama Kuya 7/3
Koyama Kuya
Cho Sonjin | Cho Sonjin 6/12, W+R | Shuto Shun 7/17, B+R
Kamimura Haruo
Shuto Shun | Shuto Shun 6/12
Rin Shien
Mizokami Tomochika | Mizokami Tomochika 7/3 | Mizokami Tomochika 7/24
Lee Yi-Hsiu
Aragaki Takeshi | Kono Takashi 6/12
Kono Takashi
O Meien | O Meien 7/24, B+3.5 | O Meien 8/21, W+R
Ishida Yoshio
Suzuki Yoshimichi | Michael Redmond 7/3
Michael Redmond
Ichiriki Ryo | Oya Koichi 7/17 | Kanazawa Makoto 8/21
Oya Koichi
Ohashi Hirofumi | Kanazawa Makoto 6/19, W+1.5
Kanazawa Makoto
Mukai Chiaki | Terayama Rei 7/10, W+0.5 | Terayama Rei 8/21
Terayama Rei
Akiyama Jiro | Akiyama Jiro 7/24
Hsu Chia Yuan
Nakaonoda Tomomi | Nakaonoda Tomomi 7/3 | Nakaonoda Tomomi 7/31
Ko Reibun
Awaji Shuzo | Awaji Shuzo 6/26
Rin Kanketsu
Hirata Tomoya | Hirata Tomoya 7/24 | Cho Chikun 8/21, B+R
Iguchi Toyohide
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun 7/17, B+5.5
Aoki Kikuyo
Mimura Tomoyasu | Mimura Tomoyasu 7/3 | Takemiya Masaki 9/11, W+0.5
Takanashi Seiken
Takemiya Masaki | Takemiya Masaki 7/24, W+5.5
Mannami Nao
So Yokoku | So Yokoku 6/12, B+11.5 | So Yokoku 7/24
O Rissei
Adachi Toshimasa | Takeuchi Kosuke 7/3
Takeuchi Kosuke
Nihon Ki-in, Kansai branch
Goto Shungo | Goto Shungo 6/26 | Imamura Yoshiaki 7/17
Ishii Kunio
Shimojima Yohei | Imamura Yoshiaki 6/26
Imamura Yoshiaki
Yanaka Katsunori | Yanaka Katsunori 7/17 | Yamashiro Hiroshi 8/21
Tanaka Nobuyuki
Yamashiro Hiroshi | Yamashiro Hiroshi 6/19
Ueki Yoshio
Hane Yasumasa | Hane Yasumasa 7/24 | Hane Yasumasa 9/4
Shida Tatsuya
Ogata Masaki | Ogata Masaki 8/21
Ida Atsushi
Hikosaka Naoto | Hikosaka Naoto 7/3, B+2.5 | Hikosaka Naoto 8/21, W+R
Miyagawa Fumihiko
Nakane Naoyuki | Iwamaru Taira 7/10
Iwamaru Taira
Nakano Hironari | Matsuoka Hideki 7/3 | Yamada Kimio 7/24, W+R
Matsuoka Hideki
Yamada Kimio | Yamada Kimio 6/12, B+1.5
Katayama Yasuo
Kansai Ki-in
Ushinohama Satsuo | Kiyonari Tetsuya 6/11, B+0.5 | Kiyonari Tetsuya 8/27, B+4.5
Kiyonari Tetsuya
Furuya Yutaka
Kurahashi Masayuki | Kurahashi Masayuki 7/23, W+R
Fujii Shuya

In the Preliminary tournament there were 27 players, namely the three people demoted from the previous League (Ko Iso, Yuki Satoshi, Ryu Shikun) and the above 18 winners (13 from Nihon Ki-in, Tokyo branch and 5 from Nihon Ki-in, Kansai branch), together with 6 players (Kurahashi Masayuki, Honda Kunihisa, Yamada Noriyoshi, Yu Zhengqi, Kiyonari Tetsuya, Yukawa Mitsuhisa) from Kansai Ki-in.