- Took over as President of Nintendo Company, Ltd. in May, 2002 when Hiroshi Yamauchi resigned.
- The first president of Nintendo Company to not be related to the Yamauchi family line.
- He studied computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
- He was known as Nintendo's fourth president when he was elected in 2002.
- Became interested in video game programming when he was a teenager.
- Encouraged Game Freak to internationally release the Pokémon Red & Blue Versions and had a hand in re-coding the games for international release. Later had a direct hand at reprogramming the Pokémon Gold & Silver Versions to compress them and allow for the inclusion of the Kanto region in the games without removing any existing content.
- Cut his own paycheck by 50% in 2014 as a response to the immense failure of the Wii U system to that Nintendo would not be forced to lay off any employees.
- Was the producer and programmer of the classic Famicom/NES games "Joust", "Golf", and "Balloon Fight".
- Inspired the creation of the Nintendo Switch by his successors at the company.
- Known for his "blue ocean" marketing strategy of pushing a product to unconsidered markets instead of trying to directly compete with other brands in the industry. Used this strategy to create the Nintendo DS and Wii systems.
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