Here is the information, more photos and one specially composed problem dedicated to all WCCC Kobe 2012 participants.

The 36th WCSC was held these two days. The preliminary results are:

1st place - Poland, 2nd - Germany, 3rd - Russia

1st place - Piotr Murdzia, 2nd - Arno Zude, 3rd Kaspar Piorun

Also there were two WFCC Sessions:

Thomas Maeder (3rd Vice-President, Treasurer), Hannu Harkona (1st Vice-President),

Harry Fougiaxis (President), Gunter Busing (Secretary), Georgy Evseev (2nd Vice-President),

Marco Bonavoglia, Tadashi Wakashima 

Rokuro Akashi (a Shogi problemist) sang songs and play the ocarina with the piano accompaniment by his wife

Tadashi Wakashima gave us lecture on Tsume-Shogi

On the lobby:

Allan Bell (Ireland), Peter van den Heuvel (Netherlands) and James Quah (Singapore)

 Menachem Witztum (Israel), Ricardo Vieira (Brazil), Kjell Widlert (Sweden), Thomas Maeder (Switzerland)

Diyan Kostadinov (Bulgaria) and bernd ellighoven (Germany)

I asked him: why your names always are written with short letters?

"They are short, because I am so tall" he joked :)

Solutions: 

KO:    Try 1.R:g6? (2.S:f5#), 1…B:g6 a 2.Sf3# A, 1…B:c5+ 2.B:c5#, but 1…Bg4!

1.Rf3! (2.R:f4#), 1…B:f3 b 2.S:f3# A, 1…g5 2.S:f5#, 1…B:d2 2.c6#, 1…B:c5+ 2.B:c5#

BE:    Try 1.c8S? (2.Se7#), 1…Sd5 2.Q:d5#, but 1…Sc6!

1.Rg6! (2.R:f6#), 1…Se4 2.Q:e4#, 1…Sd5 2.Q:d5#, 1…B:d4 2.S:d4#, 1…R:d6 2.S:d6#, 1…g:f4 2.g4#