Shuntaro Furukawa
Shuntaro Furukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 10th, 1972 and is the Japanese Businessman. At the age of 52, Shuntaro Furukawa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1994, he joined Nintendo and worked as an accountant 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 The Pokémon Company 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 Nintendo Switch. On June 28, 2018, he succeeded Tatsumi Kimishima as company president, becoming the sixth one in Nintendo's history.