【Dated: Nintendo's President Satoshi Iwata's President died



Mr. Satoshi Iwata (Iwata Sato) who was a representative director and president of game maker Nintendo, who sent popular works such as "Kirby of the Stars" and "Superbrawl Smash Brothers" to the world, died of bile duct tumor. I was 55 years old.

Notice regarding death and change of representative director (death)
(PDF file)http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713.pdf

Current affairs dot comment: President Iwata of Nintendo died
http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?k=2015071300079

Nintendo, President Iwata dies "For successor is undecided" due to tumor of the bile duct: Nihon Keizai Shimbun
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASFL13H61_T10C15A7000000/

Mr. Iwata was born in 1959. Familiar with programming from the time of high school, involved in the launch of "HAL Research Institute Co., Ltd. (HAL Research Institute)" while studying at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Information Engineering. He also worked on Nintendo's game software development in the Nintendo period, and was in charge of programming such as "Golf", "Pinball" and "Balloon Fight".

In 1992 he assumed the position of Representative Director in restructuring the HAL Research Institute. It is said that Nintendo's Yamauchi chief (then) nominee was also appointed. After that, HAL laboratory will revive with the "Kirby star" series and the "Super Science fight Smash Bros." series.

Since then he joined Nintendo in 2000 and in 2002 he took over as President and Representative Director of Nintendo, nominated by President Yamauchi. Under the Iwata regime, Nintendo sent the "Nintendo DS" series, the "Nintendo 3DS" series, the "Wii", "Wii U" series, etc. to the world. Mr. Iwata was familiar with nicknames such as "Ichinchi" "Dennouchijo", who stands in front of himself, "Interview with the president" that interviews the developers of game hardware and software at the Nintendo official website, product promotion Activities such as Nintendo Direct net distribution movie to conduct PR activities.

In June 2014,A tumor was found in the bile duct and reported that the operation was doneThen, temporarily rest. In October 2014 we returned to the public place, but there was no such thing in "E 3 2015" held in June 2015.

According to the death of President Iwata, the representative director of Nintendo will be two persons, Mr. Genro Takeda, Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto.

· 2015/07/13 13: 20
In the "Nearly Daily Itoi Newspaper" that is closely related to Mr. Iwata, a special page was drawn out which representative items among the contents Iwata appeared.

"Satoshi Iwata's content - almost daily Itoi newspaper"
http://www.1101.com/iwata20150711/index.html

· 2015/07/13 18: 45
Overseas "PlayStation" official Twitter account also tweets words of thanks to Mr. Iwata.


By the way, writer Mr. Ken Fujimoto has developed DTM software · hard with Mr. Iwata, I am posting that on January 12, 2011.

DTM software made together with Nintendo president · Iwata's new recruitment era: Ken Fujimoto's "DTM station"
http://www.dtmstation.com/archives/51664335.html

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