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Nintendo's Origins
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Playing Cards, Fun Games
Ten cards and card games had originally entered Japan from the West in the 1500s. But then they'd been banned for hundreds of years when Japan's rulers followed a strict isolationist policy. By the late 1880s after the Meiji Restoration, the government had finally removed the official ban on playing cards. And so that's why Yamaguchi starts Nintendo. So successful, in fact, that they become the largest playing card manufacturer in Japan.
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