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Konami people
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born on the 24th of August 1963 in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, and his father named him Hideo because it was the most common name among the…
- Motoi OkamotoMotoi Okamoto joined Nintendo in 1999 as a programmer. His first task involved providing library support for Luigi's Mansion, which released in 2001.
- Masahiro ItoMasahiro Ito is the Japanese artist responsible for some of the most unsettling creature designs in video game history. His monsters do not simply look…
- Keiichiro ToyamaKeiichiro Toyama is the creator of three distinct video game franchises: Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush. Each one occupies its own corner of gaming…
- Takayoshi SatoTakayoshi Sato began his formal artistic journey in 1992 at Tama Art University. He studied oil painting and received a bachelor's degree in that field by…
- Akira YamaokaAkira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on the 6th of February 1968. He initially sought to become a designer rather than a musician.
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama finished his computer programming studies at the University of Tokyo in the summer of 1992. He walked into Konami's newly opened Tokyo…
- Yoji ShinkawaYoji Shinkawa was born in Hiroshima on the 25th of December 1971. He grew up in a city that had witnessed immense destruction decades earlier, yet he found…
- Rika MuranakaRika Muranaka left her native Tokyo as a teenager to study jazz piano with Alan Swain in Chicago. She began writing music at the age of 16, but initially…
- David HayterDavid Hayter began acting at the age of nine. His father, Stephen, worked in the pharmaceutical industry. He spent most of his childhood living around the…