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...over 100 as part of a global realignment of American forces. There's a reason for the move-Iwakuni is within striking distance of every potential hot spot in Northeast Asia, from Beijing to Pyongyang to Taipei. As he gives a group of foreign journalists a briefing on Iwakuni, Satoru Shoji, an MSDF captain with the blunt build and cauliflower ears of a rugby player, points toward the area west of Japan on a map and says, "This is the area we have to watch out for." There isn't any doubt about which countries he's referring to: North...
...hard times exactly, but in the vastly profitable home-entertainment-console market, Nintendo's GameCube sits an ignominious third, behind both Sony's PlayStation 2 and even upstart Microsoft, which entered the market for the first time with the Xbox only five years ago. Miyamoto and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata are going to try to change that. But they're going to do it in the weirdest, riskiest way you could think...
...would exit the TV-top gaming business. The company, whose GameCube is running third in market share, plans to launch a new machine (code-named Revolution) next spring. It may have voice-recognition, wi-fi and touch-screen controls similar to the technology in its newest handheld, the DS. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, has criticized the ballooning money spent on game and console development. Unfortunately, it's a bit late for that. --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo
Christmas is supposed to be a happy?and wildly profitable?time, at least if you're Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, one of the world's leading makers of video games. And during the '80s and '90s, it was a joyous holiday. For most of that time, the Kyoto-based game company could count on at least one of every two game consoles gift-wrapped under Christmas trees to have been manufactured by the firm. And each of those game boxes would generate revenue streams that trickled well into the new year, as customers became addicted to Nintendo-owned franchises...
...four Olympic medals ended in the semifinals of the 500. He struggled throughout the evening, having to come from behind to barely earn second place in both his preliminary and quarterfinal heats. In the semifinals, he came out slow again and trailed Guilmette and Japan’s Satoru Terao throughout the race...