Olympic Events
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Retrospective
of the Nagano 1998 Winter Olympic Games (February 7-22, 1998)
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The
Official Site of Olympic Games
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Schools
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Shinshu
University is the leading public university in Nagano prefecture.
Among the more interesting sites at Shinshu University is that of
the Kiso
Lab at the Department
of Information Engineering.
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Nagano
University
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Nagano
National College of Technology
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Companies
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Many
of Nagano's smaller companies have not yet been struck by the Internet
bug, but the number that have is growing by day to day. The following
is a list of more notable companies with English content; the list
of sites is of course growing day-to-day and one would be well advised
to check the pages of local ISPs and other sites listed below for
the latest offerings.
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NTT
(Tokyo) is of course the mother of the Japanese Internet, but
recently the use of the Internet has mushroomed beyond the control
of any single organization.
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Nagano
is known for its industrial ingenuity particularly that of precision
machinery. One of the prefecture's better known companies is Seiko
Epson.
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One
of the few independent software developers in Nagano, Zoo
Corporation has a web site which shows off its staff's talents
in multimedia. One of the more active staff pages is that of Dan
Burgess. Zoo is also the operator of Internet
Shinshu, one of the local Internet Providers.
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Internet Providers
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Perhaps
the oldest and most well established independent provider is AVIS.
They are host to a number of interesting sites including the home
pages of several municipalities
and the Association
of Nagano Prefecture for Promoting International Exchange (ANPIE).
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Operated
by the local subsidiary of Fujitsu,
InfoValley
has a sprinkling of interesting individual
home pages, but lacks
English content.
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Popular
among computer enthusiasts, CNET
lacks any sort of central organization or very much English content.
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Internet
Shinshu is owned and operated by Zoo
Corporation (mentioned in "Companies" section above).
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The
Small
Business Information Center of Nagano Prefecture caused quite
an uproar when they opened their own Internet service provider funded
by public money; they have since promised to shut down their service
within 2 years. Many small
companies in the Prefecture have signed up for their economical
dial-up and home page posting service. The site is also host to information
about Nagano Prefecture's Research
Institutes.
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Other
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WWW.Shinshu.COM
is a webzine, but
it seems have recently stopped functioning.
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Nagano
Journal
used to have an English
section titled "Nature
Talk" but it seems that this link is no longer operable. |
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As one
of his few acts during his very short term in office, former Prime
Minister Hata (a local boy), managed to get the Ministry of International
Trade and Industry to allocate a big pile of money to build the Ueda
City Multimedia Information Center.
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