Kazuhiko Nishi

Nishi's father ran a private school. Nishi attended Waseda University but dropped out to help found the first Japanese computer magazine, I/O.

Shortly thereafter he launched ASCII magazine (a Japanese equivalent of Byte or Creative Computing) and, in 1978, ASCII Corporation, which began by making a rough translation from English to Japanese of the game Wizardry.

After 1986, Nishi wrote for newspapers and authored a number of books. He sat in several committees on behalf of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and he was a member of the Committee for World Economy in the 21st Century. Nishi is the president of MSX Association, a private organization originating from an assembly of people with affinity with the MSX standard, and the president of Digital do MaiN, audio engineering company.

Since 2002, Nishi has been the principal of a combined junior and senior high school, Suma Gakuen, in Kobe. As with many other schools in Japan, the principal has little to do with the day-to-day running of the school. In reality, the school is run by his sister, in the role of vice-principal. The school has a long connection to the Nishi family.

In 2005, Nishi ran unsuccessfully for president of a small university in rural Japan.

In 2006, Nishi had a heated argument with other users over the contents of this article about himself, and in an interview with J-CAST, Nishi said, "It was so far from the truth, so messed up, it was beyond my capacity to bear," "It was edited at the discretion of the editor (Wikipedian), and it was just being played around with among friends," "2channel and Wikipedia are the same," and "Wikipedia just cut and copy paste. It's like they're just coating lies with lies."

Furthermore, about three years later, he also criticized Wikipedia, saying that "the problem with Wikipedia and the Japanese Wikipedia is that Wiki uses the suffix Pedia and pretends to be an encyclopedia," "It's like a cesspit on the Internet, a mixture of truth, lies, ignorance, prejudice, jealousy, and vanity," and "Anyone can edit Wikipedia if they don't like the content of an article. This is why Wikipedia editing battles can occur, but the editors of the Japanese Wikipedia are in charge, and because they are arbitrary and prejudiced, it is power, not truth, that wins out. In the end, because of the 'infinite power' of anonymous people, anyone who wants to write the truth has to give up halfway through".