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Fusajirō Fukui was born on November 22, 1859, as the oldest son of Sōsuke Fukui, a craftsperson. [3] Fusajirō took the name Yamauchi after an arranged marriage with one of the daughters of the Yamauchi family, who owned a company named Haigan dealing with lime.
Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being succeeded by Satoru Iwata.
January 1 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, entrepreneur (b. 1859) [citation needed] March 8 – Princess Masako Takeda, sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1888) May 11 – Chujiro Hayashi, Reiki practitioner (b. 1880) June 5 – Tokugawa Iesato, politician (b. 1863) September 4 – Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa, career army officer (b. 1910)
Sekiryo Kaneda (Japanese: 金田 積良, Hepburn: Kaneda Sekiryō, 1883 – 1949), also known as Sekiryo Yamauchi (山内 積良, Yamauchi Sekiryō), was the second president of what is now Nintendo Co., Ltd., from 1929 to 1949. He married one of the two daughters of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Tei Yamauchi, and took the Yamauchi surname.
Fusajiro Yamauchi did not have a son to take over the family business. Following the common Japanese tradition of mukoyōshi, he adopted his son-in-law, Sekiryo Kaneda, who then legally took his wife's last name of Yamauchi. In 1929, Fusajiro Yamauchi retired and allowed Kaneda to take over as president.
Nintendo was founded as Nintendo Koppai [e] on 23 September 1889 [8] by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan, as an unincorporated establishment, to produce and distribute Japanese playing cards, or karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta, 'card'), most notably hanafuda (花札, 'flower cards').
Yamauchi Masuji: 13 November 1905 Tōgō Masamichi: 30 November 1905 Miyahara Jirō: 8 November 1906 Nashiba Tokioki: 12 March 1907 Mochihara Heiji: 12 March 1907 Kano Yūnoshin: 12 March 1907 Tomioka Sadayasu: 12 March 1907 Nakamizo Tokutarō: 12 March 1907 Ogura Byōichirō: 28 August 1908 Hikohachi Yamada: 28 August 1908 Kunikane Taketomi ...
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