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Satoru Iwata facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Satoru Iwata | |
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岩田 聡 | |
Iwata at Game Developers Conference in 2011 | |
| 4th President of Nintendo | |
| In office May 24, 2002 – July 11, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Hiroshi Yamauchi |
| Succeeded by | Tatsumi Kimishima |
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| Born | (1959-12-06)December 6, 1959 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Died | July 11, 2015(2015-07-11) (aged 55) Kyoto University Hospital [ja], Kyoto, Japan |
| Cause of death | Complications from bile duct cancer |
| Spouses | Kayoko Iwata (岩田 佳代子, Iwata Kayoko) |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Employer | HAL Laboratory (1980–2000) Nintendo (2000–2015) |
| Notable works | EarthBound, Balloon Fight, Kirby, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon, Super Smash Bros. |
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Satoru Iwata(Japanese: 岩田 聡, Hepburn: Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo from 2002 until his death in 2015. He
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PROFESSOR SO IWATA
KYOTO University
Professor So Iwata is a professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, and also serves as a group director of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center. He specializes in structural biology of membrane proteins and has solved the structures of more than 25 physiologically and medically important membrane proteins. Many of them are known as important drug targets. He has also recently created a system using the Japanese X-ray free electron laser SACLA to observe the dynamics of proteins in crystals with atomic resolution and very high temporal resolution.
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Satoru Iwata
- In this Japanesename, the family name is Iwata.
Satoru Iwata (Japanese: 岩田 聡, Hepburn: Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and gamer. He was the fourth president and CEO of Nintendo. He is widely regarded as someone who helped make video games liked by a wider audience by focusing on making entertaining games rather than advanced hardware.
On July 11, 2015, Iwata died of bile duct cancer at age 55. Iwata was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Golden Joystick Awards and the 2016 DICE Awards.
Early life
[change | change source]Iwata was born and raised in Sapporo, Japan on December 6, 1959. His father was a municipal mayor.[2]
Iwata got his first computer, a Commodore PET, in 1978. He took the machine apart, and he studied the machine because he wanted to understand it. The computer had a central processing unit (MOS 6502) similar to the one used by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The NES was a gaming console for
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