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Shuntaro Furukawa
Japanese businessman (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shuntaro Furukawa (古川 俊太郎, Furukawa Shuntarō; born January 10, 1972) is a Japanese businessman and executive who is the sixth and sitting president of the video game company Nintendo. He succeeded Tatsumi Kimishima for the position in June 2018.
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Early life
Furukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on January 10, 1972.[1][2] He grew up playing games on Nintendo's Famicom console, mainly third party games such as Nobunaga's Ambition and baseball games like Super Batter Up, not Nintendo games, until he was recommended by another student to play Super Mario Kart, making it the reason he became interested in joining.[3][4] Furukawa is a graduate of Kunitachi Senior High School,[2] and graduated from Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics in 1994.[5] Furukawa is fluent in English.[6]
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Career
In April 1994, he joined Nintendo and worked as an accountant at the European headquarters for a decade.[7] In May 2012 he became an outside director in the board of directors of the partly owned The Pokémon Company as the Nintendo representative, due to the company owning 32% shares in the joint venture, until 2018 when Satoru Shibata succeed him in the position.[7][8]
In July 2015, he was promoted to senior director, corporate planning department. In June 2016, with some company restructuring he joined the Nintendo Board of Directors and as the Managing Executive Officer of the Corporate Analysis & Administration Division. In September 2016 he also became in charge of Global Marketing Department prior to the launch of the new console, which he was involved in the marketing, development and release of the Nintendo Switch.[7]
On June 28, 2018, he succeeded Tatsumi Kimishima to become the sixth company president in Nintendo's history.[9][10][11]
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