Nintendo Innovator: Hiroshi Yamauchi

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Chapter 1 A family Business Nintendo is one of the leading game and electronics companies in the world It was founded in Japan in the late 1800s But Nintendo did not have global recognition until the 1980s This is when Hiroshi Yamauchi changed the company and electronic gaming forever fun fact The name Nintendo comes from three Japanese kanji characters They are nin and ten and do This translates roughly to leave luck to heaven Yamauchi was born in Kyoto Japan in 1927 He had a difficult childhood When Yamauchi was five his father abandoned the family Yamauchi was then raised by his mother’s parents who were very strict In 1939 World War II began The war made life difficult for everyone in Japan including Yamauchi When he was only 12 the Japanese government forced him to leave school He spent the next few years working in a military factory 4 Nintendo’s logo in Japanese kanji characters