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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.
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.
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]
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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 .
Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes 1: Masayoshi Son: 55: US$22.3 billion: Softbank: 2: Tadashi Yanai & family: 64: US$15.5 billion: Fast Retailing: 3: Nobutada Saji & family: 67
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 ]
Knowing this game would likely be a hit, Bromley arranged a meeting the following day with Yamauchi and requested the exclusive rights to Donkey Kong; Yamauchi offered them if only they could provide $200,000 upfront by that day and gave them $2 per unit sold. Greenberg agreed, though as in Japanese custom, Bromley did not have a formal ...