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Ex-Nintendo President Yamauchi dies

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows former Nintendo Co. President Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi, known for his role in enhancing the company's global presence as a game console maker, died of pneumonia at a Kyoto hospital on Sept. 19, 2013, the company said. He was 85.

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Nintendo names new president

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo Co., speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Kyoto's Minami Ward on May 24 about his retirement as president. Yamauchi, 74, will be replaced by director Satoru Iwata, 42, effective May 31. Yamauchi has been president for 52 years and is responsible for turning the Kyoto-based entertainment equipment maker into one of the world's leading video game console makers.

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Iwata to become Nintendo president

KYOTO, Japan - Satoru Iwata (photo), a 42-year-old director of Nintendo Co., will succeed Hiroshi Yamauchi as president on May 31. Yamauchi, 74, who has been president for 52 years, will become an adviser and director without representative rights.

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Nintendo names new president

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo Co., speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Kyoto's Minami Ward on May 24 about his retirement as president. Yamauchi, 74, will be replaced by director Satoru Iwata, 42, effective May 31. Yamauchi has been president for 52 years and is responsible for turning the Kyoto-based entertainment equipment maker into one of the world's leading video game console makers.

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Rakuten, Yamato collaborate to improve e-commerce business

Rakuten Inc. Chairman Hiroshi Mikitani (L) and Yamato Holdings Co. President Masaki Yamauchi announce at a press conference in Tokyo on July 6, 2015, that the two companies have strengthened their business collaboration to improve convenience in e-commerce, such as enabling Rakuten Ichiba shoppers to pick up their deliveries at convenience stores. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-bankers sentenced to prison terms over bad loans

SAPPORO, Japan - The Sapporo High Court sentenced Hiroshi Yamauchi (L in file photo) and Sadamasa Kawatani (C), two former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank presidents, to two-and-a-half years in prison each on Aug. 31 for irresponsibly extending loans that led to the Sapporo-based bank's collapse in 1997. Yoichi Nakamura (R), the former head of a Sapporo-based resort hotel developer, received 18 months in prison. (Kyodo)

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(1)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, leaves the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27. Yamauchi was acquitted in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a business group. (Kyodo)

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Nintendo names new president

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo Co., speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Kyoto's Minami Ward on May 24 about his retirement as president. Yamauchi, 74, will be replaced by director Satoru Iwata, 42, effective May 31. Yamauchi has been president for 52 years and is responsible for turning the Kyoto-based entertainment equipment maker into one of the world's leading video game console makers.

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Iwata to become Nintendo president

KYOTO, Japan - Satoru Iwata (photo), a 42-year-old director of Nintendo Co., will succeed Hiroshi Yamauchi as president on May 31. Yamauchi, 74, who has been president for 52 years, will become an adviser and director without representative rights.

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Two former bank chiefs arrested

Hiroshi Yamauchi (C), former president of the collapsed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (Takugin), is flanked by policemen as he leaves his home in Sapporo on March 2. Yamauchi was arrested later in the day along with one of his former colleagues on suspicion of breach of trust by causing massive losses to the bank through illegal loans. ==Kyodo