Hiroyuki Nishimura
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Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之 Nishimura Hiroyuki; born November 16, 1976) is the founder and an administrator of 2channel, the largest and most influential Bulletin Board System in Japan. He is usually known simply as ひろゆき (Hiroyuki).
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[edit] Career
Nishimura was born in Kanagawa but raised in Tokyo. He founded the company Tokyo Access in 1998 while he was at Chuo University. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners, Inc with Ichiro Yamamoto (handle: Kirikomi Taicho), but later left there.
[edit] 2ch
Nishimura, Ichiro Yamamoto, and Yakin were the early central management members of 2channel, but Ichiro Yamamoto left the group in 2002, and Nishimura resigned from his company.
Yakin (also known by the handle FOX) is a server specialist, and has been managing most of the 2channel servers since the Neomugicha incident, a case in 2000 in which a 17-year-old posted messages threatening to hijack a bus, and then went on to kill one person in the hijacking. The event caused a huge wave of user access, and the old servers went down.
As of 2008, 2ch generates revenue upwards of ¥100 million per year for Nishimura.[1] The site is also run by 300 "volunteer administrators" who receive no pay. Nishimura justified this with the comment, "I don't think that's all that different from some dude who opens a convenience store in front of a train station. They can make a million yen a day."[1]
[edit] Personality
Nishimura is known for loving "Umaibo" (Japanese snack), and for a period of time the server names of the 2channel site were taken from the names of "Umaibo", like pizza, curry, potato, and so forth.
He occasionally talks about self responsibility in the Internet world. There is a huge quantity of information on the net, but among that information there is both truth and lies. He emphasizes that we need to have the ability to distinguish between them. He often says, "If you would not like to know something in others, you should not write it anywhere."
[edit] Position
As of January 2007, Nishimura is an advisor to Skip-Up KK, CEO of Tokyo Plus KK, Director of Mirai Kensaku Brazil (Future Search Brazil) Ltd., and Director of Niwango Inc.
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