Interesting find, E.Yagami! This effects both SNKP's Japan headquarters as well as SNKP USA since president Ohata has left and Toyama is taking charge of the whole company, not just the USA office. It seems that Ohata left as of October which is just a year after his appointment. My assumption is that he probably decided not to renew his contract. I guess it wasn't what he was looking for.

And to note, Toyama is far from being new to SNKP; he's been a long-time executive up to current and he was also the former president of the company in the mid-2000s. He was in charge of the company before Soichiro, Mizufune, and Ohata.

So in chronological order, it's
Koichi Toyama> Hosoya Soichiro (Made KOF12&13)> Ryo Mizufune (dissolveed gaming division)> Masao Ohata (Steam KOF13)> Koichi Toyama once again.


I'm sure this news will spread like wildfire, given how SNKP's been bringing back their games division but Toyama's period was when the pachislot stuff got hot in the company. Don't forget though-- it was also Toyama who lead the company back into the arcade market in 2006 and decided to enter the current-generation consoles (which was next-gen back in those years).