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"Kazuhiko Nishi is a visionary, very energetic, almost overly optimistic", Bill Gates said of ASCII Corporation’s president, his longtime accomplice and rival. "He is a very close friend of mine and really taught me about the Japanese market. He got Microsoft doing the very first Japanese personal computer and many of those other projects". Born in Japan in 1956, Kazuhiko Nishi studied Informatics and Mechanical Engineering at Kogakuin and Waseda Universities. In 1977, as an undergraduate, he established ASCII Publishing Corporation (the present ASCII Corporation) and became the editor of ASCII, Japan’s first microcomputer magazine. Well-known for his far-sighted comments on the trends of information technology, he joined the adventurous Microsoft team in 1979, first as Vice President of the Far East operations and from 1980 to 1986 as Director and Vice President in charge of new technologies. During the 1980s, the publishing corporation launched by the informatics student was stemming new activities in all the fields of new media. In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation, today the biggest multimedia empire on the other side of the Pacific. "We have been lucky: from 1981 on, we have been surfing the personal computer wave and growing together with it", remarked ASCII’s President, himself an expert surfer. In the little time left by the twin growth of Microsoft and ASCII, the undergraduate became a University Professor. Since 1996 he is, among others, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Communications of the International University of Japan and Lecturer in Multimedia Policy at the Waseda University. While still writing for the newspapers and authoring a number of books, since 1986 Kazuhiko Nishi has 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. |
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