Fusajiro Yamauchi

Fusajirō Yamauchi
山内 房治郎
1st President of Nintendo
In office
23 September 1889 – 1929
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded bySekiryo Kaneda
Personal details
Born(1859-11-22)22 November 1859
Kyoto, Japan
Died1 January 1940(1940-01-01) (aged 80)
Kyoto, Japan
Cause of deathStroke
SpouseKoma Honda (m. 1881)
ChildrenSada (b. 1887)
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forFounder of Nintendo

Fusajirō Yamauchi (山内 房治郎, Yamauchi Fusajirō, 22 November 1859 – 1 January[citation needed] 1940), born Fusajirō Fukui (福井 房治郎), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Nintendo Koppai, the company now known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a wife and a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryo Kaneda.


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