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In 1950, Yamauchi's wife Michiko gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Yōko. During the next few years, Michiko had several miscarriages and was often ill. In 1957, she gave birth to another daughter, Fujiko and, shortly after, a son named Katsuhito. [10] Michiko Inaba died on 29 July 2012, aged 82.
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]
Because Sekiryo's marriage to Yamauchi's daughter produced no male heirs, he planned to adopt his son-in-law Shikanojo Inaba, an artist in the company's employ and the father of his grandson Hiroshi, born in 1927. However, Inaba abandoned his family and the company, so Hiroshi was made Sekiryo's eventual successor. [23]
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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.
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.
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 .
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 ]