Tuesday, October 05, 2004

To Owner's Perplexity(@wSniff

Hiroyuki Nishimura is the owner and supervisor of the 2ch, 27 years old at present. He graduated from Chuo Univ in Japan and studied English abroad in US immersed in the pragmatism and American way of life spiritually and materially. He was a fervent participant of the Amezo Bulletinboards(AB), once a famous and major internet bulletinboard service webpage. When Amezo, the owner of AB got reluctant to continuing the service by the whirl of events desponding him such as the DOS attacks with the cracking software like Dukes and his own abduction by a group of discriminated people indignant at the postings on AB, Hiroyuki launched the 2ch and attracted the participant clientele in the AB. After the collapse of the Amezo Bulletinboards, the "Diadochoi War" began, namely the successors of Amezo Bulletinboards vied for the hegemony on the world of Japanese internet bulletinboard service, however Hiroyuki's 2ch obtained the helm favored by the series of scandalous events such as the Bus Hijacking Case in Fukuoka by a participant of the 2ch who was provoked and molested on the bulletinboard.
Now the 2ch became the most famous and populous bulletinboard in Japan, but in the course to the glory there have been many stumbling blocks. One of them is the continual litigation caused by the postings on the 2ch, and almost all of them resulted in the defeat of Hiroyuki and the vast indemnification amounted to 22 million yen, namely 0.18 million US dollars at the present exchange rate.
Another teasing matter is the "direct actions" by the opponent groups against the 2ch. These days a right-wing group named "Dainiho Aikoku Seigi Juku"(Patriot Political Justice School of the Great Japan) rebuked not only Hiroyuki and 2ch but also main operating staffs. They announced to go to Kofu, where Hiroyuki's father is relegated in the affiliate Tax Office and to reprehend him for his bad education to his son Hiroyuki. This behavior is quite erratic from the viewpoint of individualism, however Hiroyuki's father is a public servant and the Japanese culture sometimes admits of such behavior to reproach the parents for their adult kids.
According to the news, Hiroyuki's father got hospitalized when they distinguished their "feat", however the reason of hospitalization is unknown(@wSniff