WRITER

Takashi Tezuka

1960 - Today

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Takashi Tezuka (手塚 卓志, Tezuka Takashi; born November 17, 1960; also known as "TENTEN" (てんてん)) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He is a senior officer in Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development division and is an Executive Officer at Nintendo itself. Tezuka was the right-hand man to Shigeru Miyamoto and co-director of the early Mario and Zelda games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Takashi Tezuka is the 5,336th most popular writer (down from 5,275th in 2024), the 1,468th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,344th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Takashi Tezuka ranks 5,336 out of 7,302. Before him are Platon Oyunsky, Thomas Love Peacock, Richard D. Ryder, Mikhail Shishkin, Gamal El-Ghitani, and Edward Rutherfurd. After him are Carol J. Adams, Ernest Dowson, Ariel Durant, Alan Ayckbourn, David Brown, and Suryakant Tripathi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Takashi Tezuka ranks 331. Before him are Mike Terrana, Moreno Argentin, Steve Kloves, Michael Hardt, Peter F. Hamilton, and Tomoyuki Kajino. After him are Marko Elsner, Adylbek Kasymaliev, Dave Weckl, Jon Landau, Jozef Chovanec, and Beata Poźniak.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takashi Tezuka ranks 1,468 out of 6,245. Before him are Osamu Chiba (1968), Jiichiro Date (1952), Tomoyuki Kajino (1960), Yohei Takayama (1979), Yuko Oita (1969), and Takahiro Sasaki (1974). After him are Hiroshi Fushida (1946), Toru Ojima (1976), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), Satoshi Tezuka (1958), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), and Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Takashi Tezuka ranks 106. Before him are Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886), Tomoji Abe (1903), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), and Kitamura Tokoku (1868). After him are Aya Kitō (1962), Marie Kondo (1984), Michio Mado (1909), Gen Urobuchi (1972), Ryukishi07 (1973), and Jun Maeda (1975).

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