Kazuhiko Nishi

Nihongo|'''Kazuhiko "Kay" At the 1978 National Computer Conference, he met and got along with Microsoft founder Bill Gates. But ASCII Corporation continued to thrive.

ASCII even launched itself into the helicopter rental sector and, like many other companies, invested in art and real estate, which seemed to be great investments in a period of rising prices. Nishi was planning to build an industrial park for software companies in northern Japan, equipped with modern electronic technologies and its own airport. The project was then shelved. Decision on the new board of directors structure and changes to directors in charge. Nishi, who was the successor to the former chairperson (female, 61 years old at the time) who resigned due to the problem of misappropriating 100 million yen of Myojo Gakuin's funds into virtual currency, was fired. After that, it was discovered that the deposit of 2.1 billion yen for the sale of land for Meijo Gakuin High School was unaccounted for, and Nishi was considering filing criminal charges against the former chairperson for breach of trust.

The Meijo Gakuin Board of Directors dismissed Nishi from his position as chairperson on August 24, 2019.

In December 2019, the former chairperson was arrested on charges of embezzlement. Nishi, who held a press conference in Osaka City on December 6, pointed out that the current situation where the former president still remains in the school corporation Myojo Gakuin.

Bankruptcy proceedings In March 2023, Nishi was going through bankruptcy proceedings in Japan — a situation that reportedly arose from bad debts he inherited from his departure from ASCII. At April 23, 2025 Nishi claims on his X/Twitter account that his decision was also to sign on as a guarantor for a friend's business loan. Nishi offered an update on the situation, stating that these proceedings had now ended and that his debt (believed to total 11.5 billion yen) has now been discharged.

Criticism of Wikipedia 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".