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Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡 Iwata Satoru; December 6, 1959, Sapporo, Japan – July 12, 2015, Kyoto, Japan) was the fourth CEO of Nintendo. He first worked at HAL Laboratory as a freelance programmer. [1] He went full-time after completing college. [1] He became president of Nintendo after Hiroshi Yamauchi retired in 2002. He became Nintendo of America's CEO in 2013. [2]Iwata died of a bile duct tumor at age 55.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Takenaka, Kiyoshi (9 December 2008). "Satoru Iwata - the man behind Nintendo's casual gaming boom.". News.com.au. http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-man-behind-the-casual-gaming-boom/story-e6frfro0-1111118263048. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ↑ "NINTENDO CO., LTD. ANNOUNCES PROMOTION OF NOA CHAIRMAN TATSUMI KIMISHIMA TO NCL MANAGING DIRECTOR". Nintendo. https://web.archive.org/web/20130516135819/http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=38483.
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