Shinsaku Uesugi (?? ??, Uesugi Shinsaku, born April 17, 1991 in Kyoto, Japan) is a FIDE Master (FM, World Chess Federation Master) of Japan and played for Japan at the 38th Chess Olympic in Dresden, Germany in November 2008.
He won the 40th Japan National Chess Championship in May 2007 and became youngest ever National Champion (16 years, 18 days old).
He also became Co-Champion of the U.S.
National High School Championship in April 2010.
Shinsaku Uesugi was born in Kyoto, Japan on April 17, 1991 and moved to the United States in March 2000.
He graduated from Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, Maryland) in June 2010 and University of California, Berkeley in May 2014.