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Shintaro Jikumaru is a planner at Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 9, who has mostly worked on the Mario Kart series and ARMS.

He was originally hired in April 2005 and worked on technical support on several titles, but later became a planner at Nintendo EAD with Mario Kart 7. Jikumaru later worked on Mario Kart 8 and on ARMS, where he was design director. Later on, he was the planning director of Mario Kart World.

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