Keiji Nishitani (?? ??, Nishitani Keiji, February 27, 1900 – November 24, 1990) was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitaro Nishida.
In 1924 Nishitani received a Ph.D.
from Kyoto University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson".
He studied under Martin Heidegger in Freiburg from 1937-9.