2. Yamauchi married Michiko Inaba. In 1950, Michiko, Yamauchi's wife gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Yoko. During the next few years, Michiko had several miscarriages and was often ill. In 1957, she gave birth to another daughter, Fujiko and, shortly after, a son named Katsuhito.
3. Yamauchi was the first to introduce the plastic Western playing card into the Japanese market.
4. Yamauchi Starts his career as a president of Nintendo on 1949
5. The Milestones of Yamauchi career is, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube
6. Seattle Mariners is a professional baseball team which is based in Seattle, Washington. In 1990 Yamauchi was brouhgt this team. He is the first non-american who is owned a american baseball team. This was a major development in American baseball, because this opened the gates for Japanese baseball players to American league teams, which had been previously denied. In 2000, the club made its first profit of $2.6 million since its acquisition by Yamauchi.Despite his ownership of the club, Yamauchi never attended a Mariners game.
7. On May 31, 2002, Yamauchi stepped down as president of Nintendo. Yamauchi subsequently became the chairman of Nintendo's board of directors. He finally left the board on June 29, 2005, due to his age.
8. Yamauchi refused to accept his retirement pension, which was reported to be around $9 to $14 million.
9. Yamauchi was the 12th richest man in Japan.
10. Yamauchi donated the majority of the 7.5 billion yen used to build a new cancer treatment center in Kyoto.
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