Keiji Nishikawa
Keiji Nishikawa is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan. He is a former director of the Japan Shogi Association, and his son Kazuhiro is also a professional shogi player.Shogi professional
Nishikawa finished the finished the 73rd Meijin Class C2 league with a record of 1 win and 9 losses, earning a third demotion point which meant automatic demotion to "Free Class" play.JSA director
Nishikawa served on the Japan Shogi Association's board of directors as a director from 2007 to 2011.Personal life
Nishikawa and his son Kazuhiro are the sixth father-son pair to become professional shogi players and the only pair since the end of World War II.The promotion history for Nishikawa is as follows:
- 1975: 5-kyū
- 1978: 1-dan
- 1981, November 3: 4-dan
- 1984, April 1: 5-dan
- 1988, May 27: 6-dan
- 1997, September 24: 7-dan
- 2018, April 1: 8-dan
