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Nishimura, Ichirō Yamamoto, and Yoshihiro "Yakin" Nakao, President of ZERO Co.Ltd. were the early central management members of 2channel, but Ichirō Yamamoto left the group in 2002, and Nishimura resigned from his company.
Nakao (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. 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."
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