Nagoya was founded around 1610 by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu when consturction on Nagoya castle was finished. Shogun Tokugawa and his successors encouraged the growth of arts such as Noh and Kabuki theater, Japanese dance, tea and incense ceremonies and flower arragnement. These traditionial arts encouraged the growth of the ceramics, textile, dyeing, and carpentry industries. Nagoya, still today, is home to Japan's largest and most established ceramic industries, it is also a center for Japan's furniture and textile industries.

Today, the city is Japan's third largest industrial and cultural metropolis, behind only Tokyo and Osaka. Many of Japan's high-tech industries, such as the automobile ( Toyota City, in fact, lies merely 30 kilometers east of Nagoya), aviation, machine tools, ceramics, and industrial robot industries, are based in and around Nagoya.

Nagoya's uniqueness, however, lies in it's location. Situtated between Japan's two major metropolitan areas of Osaka and Tokyo, Nagoya has become a familiar host to conventions. It also has been designated as an International Convention City by the Ministry of Transport of Japan. This push to internationalize has Nagoya continuing to expand it's conference facilites.

As with most of Japan, Nagoya has a extensive public transportation system of subway, buses, and trains, including the high-speed Shinkansen (bullet train). They are also linked internationally by the port of Nagoya, and the Nagoya airport. Construction is currently underway for a new 4 gate international terminal, designed to handle upto 4.5 million passengers a year.

There are two major temples that are famous within Japan, Atsuta temple and the Shrine of Ise. Nagoya aslo holds a number of festivals throughout the year. The two main festivals are the Nagoya festival, held in the fall, and the Atsuta festival held during the summer. Nagoya is famous for a number of dishes as well: Kishimen, broad, flat, fettucine-like handmade wheat noodles; Misonikomi, a "meal in a pot", comes to the table bubbling hot; Cochin, a chicken dish, prepared in a variety of ways; Temmusu, a mouthful-size rice ball containing fried shrimp. Lastly, Nagoya also happens to be Japan's "joke town". Meaning a town that is the popular target of jokes and mockery.

I found this project to be an eye-opening experinece as to the ammount of useful information that is availible on the internet. Having once before attempted to use the internet for research, I thought it was going to be harder then looking for the information in the library. However, at that time I wasn't aware of the number of different search engines and databases availible over the internet. Now, I feel on my next project I will first look at what is availible via the internet before heading off to the library.

This site has information on future planning of the area, from internationalization to agriculture.

The official Nagoya site. It contains nice and simple picutures and text. It also links to other pages, however when jumping to another page, it leaves it's control bar on the left. Making it difficult to find the addresses of the page you jumped to.

Site with links to other regional sites, as well as a link to the Nagoya Guide page. Has an outline of Nagoya history and the history of the university.

On this site there are mainly just small pictures and small descriptions of places in Nagoya. It's a pretty bare-bones site, blue on grey background.

This site loads with broken pictures. This is a terrible sight, with all index links forrbidden to my server.

Another general Nagoya homepage. Contains extensive links, although, many are to Japanese language pages, or dead links.

A site focused around open disscussion on various topics/themes. An interesting site.

The best site on Nagoya containing many sub-links to history, food, shopping, etc...

Usefull for historical background information. It also had one link to another page on Nagoya.

A good site, with plentiful information on all types of subjects, from general news to politics.

This site is a great site for finding business related articles. Articles found on cermaics industry, automotive and research taking place in Nagoya.

A nice number of listings, however, the majority of which are supprisingly in Japanese.

This site had 244 general articles on Japan. However, they were difficult to weed through to find anything related to Nagoya.

Not a very usefull site. Around 20 or so generally irrelvent articles.