[1][2] Kaneda retired in 1949 after suffering a stroke, leaving Nintendo to be run by his grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi.
[6] One of his first decisions was to create a "karuta" division in charge of all educative and child-focused card games.
[7] During World War II, Nintendo came close to bankruptcy but was saved thanks to a contract with the Japanese government on November 28th 1942 to realise a Uta-garuta deck which used nationalist texts instead of the habitual 100 poems.
[9] Kimi would end up marrying Shikanojô Inaba, a marriage from which was born Hiroshi Yamauchi.
[10] Near death, he quickly recruited his 21-year-old grandson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, to quit college and inherit the family business.