Iwata Interchange
Iwata may refer to: * Iwata, Shizuoka, city located in Shizuoka, Japan *Iwata (surname) ** Satoru Iwata, former president and CEO of Nintendo *Júbilo Iwata is a professional Japanese association football team that currently play in the J2 League. The team name ''Júbilo'' means 'joy' in Spanish and Portuguese. The team's hometown is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium. For ...

Iwata, Shizuoka
former Mitsuke School in Iwata is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 169,897 in 68,215 households and a population density was 1,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Iwata is widely known as the headquarters of the Yamaha Motor Corporation. Iwata is also home to Júbilo Iwata, a J. League soccer team, as well as Yamaha Jubilo, a rugby team. Geography Iwata is located in southwestern Shizuoka Prefecture, bordered by the Tenryū River to the west and with a small coastline on the Pacific Ocean to the south. Surrounding municipalities *Shizuoka Prefecture **Hamamatsu **Fukuroi **Mori Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Iwata has been increasing over the past 60 years. Climate The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Iwata is . The average annual rainfall is with J ...
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Iwata (surname)
Iwata (written: lit. "rock ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese golfer * Karen Iwata (born 1998), Japanese singer * Kiyomi Iwata (born 1941), Japanese-American artist *Manzo Iwata (1924–1993), Japanese martial artist *Masaharu Iwata (born 1966), Japanese video game composer * Masahiro Iwata (born 1981), Japanese football player *Minoru Iwata (born 1983), Japanese baseball pitcher * Mitsuo Iwata (born 1967), Japanese voice actor *Nakayama Iwata (1895-1949), Japanese photographer *Satoru Iwata (1959–2015), Japanese businessman *Sayuri Iwata (born 1990), Japanese actress and J-Pop artist *Shinji Iwata (born 1987), Japanese baseball pitcher *Takuya Iwata (footballer, born 1983), Japanese footballer *Takuya Iwata (footballer, born 1994), Japanese footballer *, Japanese jockey *Yasuo Iwata was a Japanese voice actor from Iwate, most known for his role as Nanbutsu Isasaka in ''Sazae-san''. Death Yasuo Iwata died from lung cancer on ...
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Satoru Iwata
was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth President (corporate title), president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo from 2002 until his death in 2015. He was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware. Born in Sapporo, Iwata expressed interest in video games from an early age and created his first simple game while in high school. He majored in computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1980, he joined the game developer HAL Laboratory while attending the university. At HAL, he worked as a programmer and closely collaborated with Nintendo, producing his first commercial game in 1983. Games to which he contributed include ''EarthBound'' and many games in the ''Kirby (series), Kirby'' series. Following a downturn and near-bankruptcy, Iwata became the president of HAL in 1993 at the insistence of Ni ...
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