{"id":114864,"date":"2020-06-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/nintendos_directors_receive_new_approval_ratings_-_heres_how_shareholders_voted"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:00:00","slug":"nintendos-directors-receive-new-approval-ratings-heres-how-shareholders-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/nintendos-directors-receive-new-approval-ratings-heres-how-shareholders-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Directors Receive New Approval Ratings &#8211; Here&#8217;s How Shareholders Voted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/232b8fce26515\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/232b8fce26515\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Miyamoto\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/232b8fce26515\/miyamoto.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/232b8fce26515\/miyamoto.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Miyamoto\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Every time Nintendo holds one of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, its directors are faced with a new series of votes from shareholders to assess their approval ratings. Today, the day of the 80th annual meeting, is no different, and we have a record of how the votes went down below.<\/p>\n<p>Shareholders were asked to vote either in favour or against company president Shuntaro Furukawa and directors, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi, Ko Shiota and Satoru Shibata. Here&#8217;s how they voted (with thanks to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectly-nintendo.com\/nintendo-80th-annual-general-meeting-of-shareholders-approval-ratings-qa-soon-available-in-english\/\">Perfectly-Nintendo<\/a> for the translation):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shuntaro Furukawa: 937,392 votes in favour (95.47%), 41,324 votes against, 245 did not vote<\/li>\n<li>Shigeru Miyamoto: 965,332 votes in favour (98.32%), 12,059 votes against, 1,575 did not vote<\/li>\n<li>Shinya Takahashi: 965,552 votes in favour (98.34%), 11,834 votes against, 1,575 did note vote<\/li>\n<li>Ko Shiota: 965,559 votes in favour (98.34%), 11,827 votes against, 1,575 did note vote<\/li>\n<li>Satoru Shibata: 965,553 votes in favour (98.34%), 11,833 votes against, 1,575 did note vote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, all five directors saw their approval rating increase year-on-year, with Furukawa&#8217;s rating jumping the most up to 95.47% from last year&#8217;s 92.04%.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also touched upon potential game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/nintendo_provides_an_update_on_potential_game_delays_due_to_covid-19\">delays due to COVID-19<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/nintendo_president_apologises_for_joy-con_drift_cant_comment_further_due_to_ongoing_lawsuit\">quick apology over Joy-Con drift<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/nintendo_says_directs_are_incredibly_effective_but_they_might_not_be_around_forever\">the future of Nintendo Directs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Every time Nintendo holds one of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, its directors are faced with a new series of votes from shareholders to assess their approval ratings. Today, the day of the 80th annual meeting, is no different, and we have a record of how the votes [&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-114864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114864","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=114864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}