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Nintendo

Yamauchi Retirment

Thursday May 23, 2002
Kyoto, Japan

When Yamauchi, company president since 1949, retired on 24 May 2002, Satoru Iwata became the first Nintendo president who was unrelated to the Yamauchi family through blood or marriage since its founding in 1889.


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