A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising: - a negative-electrode current collector; and - a negative-electrode active material layer provided on the negative-electrode current collector, characterized in that: - the negative-electrode active material layer includes: flaky graphite particles having an aspect ratio of 6 to 80, which are needle coke graphite; particulate graphite particles having an aspect ratio of no more than 4, which are graphitized coke; and a binder, and - an average particle diameter of the particulate graphite particles is smaller than an average particle diameter of the flaky graphite particles in an in-plane direction, - the flaky graphite particles have an average interlayer distance d from 0.3365 to 0.3375 nm determined by X-Ray diffractometry, - wherein said flaky graphite particles are arranged in such a manner that one surface of each flaky graphite particle is substantially in parallel with an upper surface of said negative-electrode current collector, - wherein the negative-electrode active material layer has a graphite packing density of 0.95 g/cm 3 to 1.19 g/cm 3, a porosity of 37.0% to 45% and an average pore diameter of 1 μm to 1.2 μm, the graphite packing density and the porosity being measured by use of a porosimeter, - wherein when an upper surface of the negative-electrode active material layer is pressed at a pressure of 200 kg/cm 2 (19.6 MPa), the negative-electrode active material layer has a thickness of 91% or more of a thickness of the negative-electrode active material layer not pressed. - a negative-electrode current collector; and - a negative-electrode active material layer provided on the negative-electrode current collector, characterized in that: - the negative-electrode active material layer includes: flaky graphite particles having an aspect ratio of 6 to 80, which are needle coke graphite; particulate graphite particles having an aspect ratio of no more than 4, which are graphitized coke; and a binder, and - an average particle diameter of the particulate graphite particles is smaller than an average particle diameter of the flaky graphite particles in an in-plane direction, - the flaky graphite particles have an average interlayer distance d from 0.3365 to 0.3375 nm determined by X-Ray diffractometry, - the negative-electrode active material layer includes: flaky graphite particles having an aspect ratio of 6 to 80, which are needle coke graphite; particulate graphite particles having an aspect ratio of no more than 4, which are graphitized coke; and a binder, and - an average particle diameter of the particulate graphite particles is smaller than an average particle diameter of the flaky graphite particles in an in-plane direction, - the flaky graphite particles have an average interlayer distance d from 0.3365 to 0.3375 nm determined by X-Ray diffractometry, - wherein said flaky graphite particles are arranged in such a manner that one surface of each flaky graphite particle is substantially in parallel with an upper surface of said negative-electrode current collector, - wherein the negative-electrode active material layer has a graphite packing density of 0.95 g/cm 3 to 1.19 g/cm 3, a porosity of 37.0% to 45% and an average pore diameter of 1 μm to 1.2 μm, the graphite packing density and the porosity being measured by use of a porosimeter, - wherein when an upper surface of the negative-electrode active material layer is pressed at a pressure of 200 kg/cm 2 (19.6 MPa), the negative-electrode active material layer has a thickness of 91% or more of a thickness of the negative-electrode active material layer not pressed.