- Kazuhiko Nishi
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February 10 ,1956 inKobe ,Japan worked forMicrosoft during the 1980s as Vice President of theFar East operations.In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to
ASCII Corporation to develop theMSX standard together withNEC executiveKazuya Watanabe . Today ASCII is the biggestmultimedia empire on the west side of the Pacific. Since 1986 Nishi has written fornewspaper s and authored a number ofbook s. He sat in severalcommittee s on behalf of theMinistry of Posts and Telecommunications and of theMinistry of International Trade and Industry , and he is presently a member of theCommittee for World Economy in the 21st Century . He is also the president of [http://www.bazix.nl/msxa.html 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.
External links
* [http://www.nishi.org/english/index.html Personal Website]
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