Hiroshi Yamauchi
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Sekiryo Kaneda
- Succeeded by
- Satoru Iwata
- Born
- ( 1927-11-07 ) 7 November 1927, Kyoto , Japan
- Died
- 19 September 2013 (2013-09-19) (aged 85), Sakyō-ku, Kyoto , Japan
- Spouse
- Michiko Inaba ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 ; died 2012 )
- Alma mater
- Waseda University (no degree)
- Occupation
- President and chairman of Nintendo (1949–2002)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Kyoto
- Place of death
- Kyoto
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Waseda University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Number of children
- 3
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- cause of death
- pneumonia
- date of birth
- 1927-11-07
- date of death
- 2013-09-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in kana
- やまうち ひろし
- name in native language
- 山内 溥
- different from
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi
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Encyclopedic overview
Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japanese: 山内 溥; 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was the third president of Nintendo, serving in the role from 25 April 1949 to 24 May 2002, and principal owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 until his death. Before joining Nintendo, he had strong familial connections; his great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, founded the company, and was its first president, and his grandfather, Sekiryo Kaneda, was its second president. During his tenure, Nintendo was transformed from a Japanese manufacturer of hanafuda into a global conglomerate largely focused on manufacturing video game consoles and publishing video games. On the basis of this success, and his ownership of most of Nintendo's shares, he became considerably wealthy. In 2008, he was Japan's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $7.8 billion. Even in 2013, with this figure having declined to $2.1 billion, he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world.
Early life
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