is a Japanese businessman and executive. He is the sixth and current president of the video game company

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in Japan. He took over as company president in June 2018, succeeding

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Early life

Furukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan as the son of illustrator Taku Furukawa on January 10, 1972. He grew up playing games on Nintendo's

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console. Furukawa is a graduate of

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Senior High School, and graduated from

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's School of Political Science and Economics in 1994.

Career

In 1994, he joined Nintendo and worked as an

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at the European headquarters for a decade. By the mid-2010s, he rose up in the corporate office, working in global marketing, the executive department. He also became an outside director of the partly owned

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as the Nintendo representative in the board of directors of the company, due to Nintendo owning 32% shares in the joint venture. In 2015, he was promoted to the General Manager of Corporate Planning Department. In June 2016, with some company restructuring he joined the Nintendo Board of Directors as the Managing Executive Officer of the Corporate Analysis & Administration Division. Furukawa is fluent in English, and was involved in the development of and release manager of the

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. On June 28, 2018, he succeeded

as company president, becoming the sixth one in Nintendo's history.

References

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