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Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team from 1992 until his death. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In April 2013, Forbes estimated Yamauchi's net worth at $2.1 billion; he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world . [ 6 ]
FusajirÅ 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. Since the Yamauchi family had no male heirs to inherit the company, FusajirÅ was adopted by the Yamauchis and became the heir to his adoptive father, Naoshichi Yamauchi. [3]
With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing the president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, with his toys. [3] He helped create art for the arcade game Sheriff , [ 4 ] and was later tasked with designing a new arcade game, leading to the 1981 game Donkey Kong .
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Near death, he quickly recruited his 21-year-old grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, to quit college and inherit the family business. Hiroshi Yamauchi's father, Shikanojo Inaba, had forfeited inheritance because he had abandoned his family when Yamauchi was five years old. [11] [12] [13] His ashes today reside within the same building he built in 1933 ...
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At a Christmas party in Kyoto, Arakawa met Yoko Yamauchi, daughter of Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. [9] They married in November 1973. [10] Arakawa, along with his wife and three-year-old daughter Maki, moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1977 for work. [2] [11] A second daughter, Masayo, was born in 1978. [12]
When Yamauchi, the company's president since 1949, retired on May 24, 2002, [26] [27] Iwata succeeded as Nintendo's fourth president with Yamauchi's blessing. [28] He was the first Nintendo president unrelated to the Yamauchi family through blood or marriage since its founding in 1889. [ 29 ]