Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (died 2013)

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Japanese businessman (1927–2013)

Hiroshi Yamauchi was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company…