Othello is a board game where players alternately place black and white stones, capturing the opponent's stones by sandwiching them between their own. While it's a game loved worldwide, it's actually an invention from Japan. The Creation of Othello Othello was invented by a Japanese man named Mr. Goro Hasegawa. Mr. Goro Hasegawa came up with this game in 1945, during his junior high school years, shortly after the end of World War II. At that time, Japan had few forms of entertainment due to the aftermath of the war, and Mr. Goro Hasegawa created this game to play with ...