Nishimura began his career as an indoor volleyball player and played Libero for the Japanese National Team.
In 2009, Nishimura founded the environmental non-profit-organisation "Save the Beach".
[2] He married volleyball player Kaoru Sugayama in 2011.
At the 2006 Swatch FIVB World Tour, in France, he won the 7th place and accomplished the unprecedented feat of becoming the first Japanese man to reach 7th place in a beach volleyball world tour tournament.
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