is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.
Tokuda was born in Shà «nan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on December 9, 1997. He learned how to play shogi from watching his grandfather and father play and won the in 2009.
Tokuda was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyà « as a student of shogi professional Kenji Kobayashi in September 2010. He was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2018, and obtained full professional status and the corresponding rank of 4-dan in April 2022 after tying for first with Reo Okabe in the 70th 3-dan League (October 2021March 2022) with a record of 15 wins and 3 losses.
Tokuda was one of the five regular professionals to be selected as an opponent for women's professional Kana Fukuma in her first attempt to pass the Professional Admission Test in AugustOctober 2022. Tokuda and Fukuma met in Game 1 on August 18 in Osaka with Tokuda moving first and ultimately winning in 127 moves.
Tokuda won the 12th in October 2022 by defeating amateur professional 3-dan Yà «ki Saità  2 games to 0 in the best-of-three championship match.
The promotion history for Tokuda is as follows.
Tokuda has yet to appear in a major title match, but he has won one non-title tournament.