Hidetoshi Nakanishi

Hidetoshi Nakanishi (中西 英敏) is a Japanese judoka. He was former world champion of Lightweight category.

He is from Umi, Fukuoka. He began judo at the age of a 4th grader. After graduation from Tokai University, He belonged to International Budo University, Tokyo University and so on as a coach.

He won the gold medal of world championships in 1983 and participate Olympic Games in 1984.

As of 2009, Nakanishi coaches judo at his alma mater, Tokai University, where he previously studied as an undergraduate.