NAGOYA AREA CODE
The area code for Nagoya is 52. The international dialing code for Japan is 81. Therefore if you’re overseas and need to call somebody in Nagoya, Japan, you should dial (81)52+Nagoya Telephone Number.
“0120″ is the area code for Japan’s Toll Free Number. Similar to US 1-800 Toll Free number.
NAGOYA AIRPORT
Located roughly halfway between Tokyo and Osaka on the main island of Honshu, Nagoya’s construction was completed for the military towards the end of the war in pacific and in thos days had a 4,900ft (1,500m) runway. The United States occupied Japan after its surrender in August 1945, and all non-approved flying was banned in the country. It was not until five years later, in 1951, that commercial flying was allowed to recommence. The following year, newly-formed JAL Japan Air Lines (nowJapan Airlines) inaugurated the airport’s first commercial service providing a Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka schedule. However there wasn’t even a dedicated passenger terminal – that materialized, as a temporary structure, the following year. In 1954 the forerunner of today’s All Nippon Airways assumed responsibility for domestic services and took over the route linking the city with the capital.
In 1957 the Nagoya Airport Terminal Building Company (NATB) was founded to operate and manage the newly-constructed passenger terminal – only the second of its kind in Japan after that at Tokyo-Haneda. The following year the runway was extended to 9,000ft (2,740m) so that it could better serve the developing scheduled passenger services, and in 1960 the airport was finally opened officially.
A new dedicated domestic air terminal was in operation by 1964, but its opening coincided with the inauguration of the Shinkansen Super Express railway line, well known for its bullet trains. With Nagoya now linked to Tokyo over 230 miles (366km) away in less then two hours, the rail service caused a significant decline in the number of passengers flying between the two cities. Partly in response to the competition now provided by the efficient nationwide rail network, All Nippon spent the next few years gradually expanding its domestic network from Nagoya to include cities on all Japan’s major islands among them Fukuoka (on the island of Kyushu), Sapporo (on Hokkaido) and Okinawa.
This effectively established the airport as a hub in the center of Japan.
The first international scheduled service began in 1966 when JAL and Cathay Pacific inaugurated flights via Fukuoka to Taipei (Taiwan) and onward to Hong Kong. A new International Terminal was opened the following year, but it was not until 1974 that passenger numbers broke through the one million mark for the first time, and by 1990 over 5 million passengersa year were being handled.
In 1966 under its Seventh Five-Year Airport Plan, the Japanese Government announced its intention to build a new airport forNagoya City. This was to be on land reclaimed from the sea in the adjacent Ise-way (bay), the intention being for all scheduled passenger services to be transferred to the new airport when it opened. By 1997 passenger numbers at Nagoya exceeded 10 million, a third of these international travelers.
Visit Nagoya today and it is easy to see why the government authorities have sanctioned the building of another airport. The city is Japan’s fourth largest – the airport serves a region inhabited by 20 million people and generates a gross domestic product of Yen 82 trillion ($677 million). The city is home to some of the country’s leading corporations and high-tech companies, including the automotive industry. Such has been the development of this manufacturing base at the hearth of Japan that the city’s spread has enveloped the airport which now gives it a truly ‘downtown’ location, as it is only 6 miles (10km) from the center. This economic growth impacted directly on the airport’s fortunes and business was indeed booming… then came the recession in Japan during the 1990s and the decline of Asia’s ‘tiger economies’ from 1997, and airline traffic suffered accordingly. Nowadays, passenger numbers continue to hover around the 10 million mark, putting the airport on a par with Berlin and Helsinki in Europe, and New Orleans and Raleigh-Durham in the USA.
Read more about Nagoya airport.
In 1957 the Nagoya Airport Terminal Building Company (NATB) was founded to operate and manage the newly-constructed passenger terminal – only the second of its kind in Japan after that at Tokyo-Haneda. The following year the runway was extended to 9,000ft (2,740m) so that it could better serve the developing scheduled passenger services, and in 1960 the airport was finally opened officially.
A new dedicated domestic air terminal was in operation by 1964, but its opening coincided with the inauguration of the Shinkansen Super Express railway line, well known for its bullet trains. With Nagoya now linked to Tokyo over 230 miles (366km) away in less then two hours, the rail service caused a significant decline in the number of passengers flying between the two cities. Partly in response to the competition now provided by the efficient nationwide rail network, All Nippon spent the next few years gradually expanding its domestic network from Nagoya to include cities on all Japan’s major islands among them Fukuoka (on the island of Kyushu), Sapporo (on Hokkaido) and Okinawa.
This effectively established the airport as a hub in the center of Japan.
The first international scheduled service began in 1966 when JAL and Cathay Pacific inaugurated flights via Fukuoka to Taipei (Taiwan) and onward to Hong Kong. A new International Terminal was opened the following year, but it was not until 1974 that passenger numbers broke through the one million mark for the first time, and by 1990 over 5 million passengersa year were being handled.
In 1966 under its Seventh Five-Year Airport Plan, the Japanese Government announced its intention to build a new airport forNagoya City. This was to be on land reclaimed from the sea in the adjacent Ise-way (bay), the intention being for all scheduled passenger services to be transferred to the new airport when it opened. By 1997 passenger numbers at Nagoya exceeded 10 million, a third of these international travelers.
Visit Nagoya today and it is easy to see why the government authorities have sanctioned the building of another airport. The city is Japan’s fourth largest – the airport serves a region inhabited by 20 million people and generates a gross domestic product of Yen 82 trillion ($677 million). The city is home to some of the country’s leading corporations and high-tech companies, including the automotive industry. Such has been the development of this manufacturing base at the hearth of Japan that the city’s spread has enveloped the airport which now gives it a truly ‘downtown’ location, as it is only 6 miles (10km) from the center. This economic growth impacted directly on the airport’s fortunes and business was indeed booming… then came the recession in Japan during the 1990s and the decline of Asia’s ‘tiger economies’ from 1997, and airline traffic suffered accordingly. Nowadays, passenger numbers continue to hover around the 10 million mark, putting the airport on a par with Berlin and Helsinki in Europe, and New Orleans and Raleigh-Durham in the USA.
Read more about Nagoya airport.
UNIVERSITY NAGOYA
Nagoya University (?????, Nagoya daigaku?), abbreviated to Meidai (???) , is a Japanese national university headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2009 ranks Nagoya University as fourth in Japan. The 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings) ranks Nagoya University as fifth in Japan. The 2010 QS Asian University Rankings rated Nagoya number ten in Asia and number five in Japan , while the QS World University Rankings[5] for 2010 ranked Nagoya 91st in the world.
Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University. In 2004 it became a National University Corporation.
The ideal written in the Nagoya University Academic Charter is to encourage the intelligentsia with courage by providing an education which respects independent thought.
While the majority of its students come from T?kai region, Nagoya University has a good portion of students from all over Japan.
It also receives many students from abroad. Currently there are over 1300 foreign students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the various faculties of Nagoya University. The majority of them are from China (47%, as of May 1, 2009) and Korea (9.5%). Among other countries, Taiwan, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Uzbekistan are represented by more than 30 students. The United States and Brazil with 16 students each are the most represented non-Asian countries.
Notable alumni and affiliates include four Nobel Prize winners. Dr. Ry?ji Noyori, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching at the university.
Reiji Okazaki (????) , discoverer of the Okazaki fragments, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor at the university.
Yoshinori Kidani, discoverer of the cancer drug oxaliplatin
Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University. In 2004 it became a National University Corporation.
The ideal written in the Nagoya University Academic Charter is to encourage the intelligentsia with courage by providing an education which respects independent thought.
While the majority of its students come from T?kai region, Nagoya University has a good portion of students from all over Japan.
It also receives many students from abroad. Currently there are over 1300 foreign students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the various faculties of Nagoya University. The majority of them are from China (47%, as of May 1, 2009) and Korea (9.5%). Among other countries, Taiwan, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Uzbekistan are represented by more than 30 students. The United States and Brazil with 16 students each are the most represented non-Asian countries.
Notable alumni and affiliates include four Nobel Prize winners. Dr. Ry?ji Noyori, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching at the university.
Reiji Okazaki (????) , discoverer of the Okazaki fragments, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor at the university.
Yoshinori Kidani, discoverer of the cancer drug oxaliplatin
