{"id":105976,"date":"2019-12-22T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/nintendos_shigeru_miyamoto_honoured_by_his_hometown_in_japan"},"modified":"2019-12-22T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:05:00","slug":"nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-honoured-by-his-hometown-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/22\/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-honoured-by-his-hometown-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto Honoured By His Hometown In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ecc86f4cab334\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ecc86f4cab334\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ecc86f4cab334\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto is a living legend and an individual responsible for many of the most famous video game series of all time. He currently acts as a &#8216;Creative Fellow&#8217; at the Japanese company and passes his ideas and knowledge onto the next generation of video game designers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Miyamoto has been recognised as one of the &#8220;first four honorary citizens&#8221; of his hometown Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s credited in <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kyoto-np.co.jp\/articles\/-\/103578\">The Kyoto Shimbun<\/a> as &#8220;leading game development at Nintendo, and producing hit titles&#8221; like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/super_mario_bros\">Super Mario Bros.<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/strong> (thanks, Japanese Nintendo).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only award Miyamoto has received in recent times. In October, he was recognised as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendos_shigeru_miyamoto_to_be_recognised_as_a_person_of_cultural_merit_in_japan\">Person of Cultural Merit<\/a> in his homeland \u2013 an award which acknowledges citizens who have made outstanding contributions to Japan&#8217;s culture. Shigeru was also the first representative of the video game industry to receive this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s Shigeru Miyamoto is a living legend and an individual responsible for many of the most famous video game series of all time. He currently acts as a &#8216;Creative Fellow&#8217; at the Japanese company and passes his ideas and knowledge onto the next generation of video game designers. Now, Miyamoto has been recognised as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}