Kazuhiko Nishi
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Kazuhiko Nishi (西 和彦 Nishi Kazuhiko?, born 1956 in Japan) worked for Microsoft during the 1980s as Vice President of the Far East operations.
In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation to develop the MSX standard together with NEC executive Kazuya Watanabe. Today ASCII is the biggest multimedia empire on the west side of the Pacific. Nishi is still writing for newspapers and authoring a number of books; since 1986. 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 is presently a member of the Committee for World Economy in the 21st Century. He is also the president of MSX Association a private organization originating from an assembly of people with affinity with the MSX standard.
In 2005, Nishi ran unsuccessfully for president of a small university in rural Japan.
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