NAGOYA IN THE SPOTLIGHT

摘要

Strategically located between Tokyo and Japan's western population centres of Kyoto and Osaka, Nagoya has played a largely unsung but vital role in the country's political and economic development for centuries. With the award of two more Nobel,prizes to Nagoya University researchers in 2014, the spotlight has now firmly turned on Nagoya and its flagship university as a fertile hotbed for ground-breaking innovation and research. With the sprawling metropolis and commercial hub ofTokyo to its east and the tradition-steeped Kyoto and vibrant urbanity of Osaka to its west, the city of Nagoya has not always attracted the attention it deserves.The greater Nagoya region and surrounding Aichi prefecture is the largest manufacturing base in Japan, has the largest international shipping port in the country and is the third largest population centre with over 8 million residents.