Editing Nagoya (section)

===Modern period===
;Meiji period
During the [[Meiji Restoration]] Japan's provinces were restructured into prefectures and the government changed from family to bureaucratic rule. Nagoya was proclaimed a city on October 1, 1889, and designated a city on 1 September 1956, by [[City designated by government ordinance|government ordinance]]. Nagoya became an industrial hub for the region. Its economic sphere included the famous [[Japanese pottery and porcelain|pottery]] towns of [[Tokoname, Aichi|Tokoname]], [[Tajimi, Gifu|Tajimi]] and [[Seto, Aichi|Seto]], as well as [[Okazaki, Aichi|Okazaki]], one of the only places where [[gunpowder]] was produced under the [[shogunate]]. Other industries included [[cotton]] and complex mechanical dolls called ''[[karakuri ningyō]]''.

;Taisho period
[[Mitsubishi Aircraft Company]] was established in 1920 in Nagoya and became one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in Japan. The availability of space and the central location of the region and the well-established connectivity were some of the major factors that lead to the establishment of the aviation industry there.

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File:Photo of Nagoya Town, 1880-1890.jpg|Photo of Nagoya, 1880–1890
File:Nagoya Station 1886.jpg|[[Nagoya Station]] in 1886
File:Nagoya-Hirokoji_in_the_Meiji_era.JPG|Hirokoji in Nagoya during the [[Meiji (era)|Meiji era]]
File:御大典奉祝名古屋博覧会 正門.jpg|Main Gate of the Nagoya Expo in [[Tsuruma Park]], 1928
File:Nagoya map circa 1930.PNG|Nagoya map circa 1930
File:Toyota Motor Corporation Koromo plant in 1938.jpg|[[Toyota|Toyota Motor Corporation]] Koromo plant (now the [[Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology]]) in 1938
File:TBCN Kakunai Line.JPG|[[Nagoya City Hall]] in the [[Showa period]]
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;Pacific War and post-war years
Nagoya was the target of [[Bombing of Nagoya|air raids]] during the [[Pacific War]]. The population of Nagoya at this time was estimated to be 1.5{{nbsp}}million, fourth among Japanese cities and one of the three largest centers of the Japanese aircraft industry. It was estimated that 25% of its workers were engaged in aircraft production. Important Japanese aircraft targets (numbers 193, 194, 198, 2010, and 1729) were within the city itself, while others (notably 240 and 1833) were to the north of [[Kakamigahara, Gifu|Kagamigahara]]. It was estimated that they produced between 40% and 50% of Japanese combat aircraft and engines, such as the vital [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]] fighter. The Nagoya area also produced machine tools, bearings, railway equipment, metal alloys, tanks, motor vehicles and processed foods during the war.

Air raids began on April 18, 1942, with an [[Doolittle Raid|attack]] on a [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]] aircraft works, the Matsuhigecho oil warehouse, the Nagoya Castle military barracks and the Nagoya war industries plant.<ref>''The First Heroes'' by Craig Nelson</ref> The bombing continued through the spring of 1945, and included large-scale [[firebombing]]. Nagoya was the target of two of [[Bomber Command]]'s attacks. These incendiary attacks, one by day and one by night, devastated {{convert|5.9|mi2|1|abbr=out|order=flip}}. The [[XXI Bomber Command]] established a new [[U.S. Army Air Force]] record with the greatest tonnage ever released on a single target in one mission—3,162 tons of incendiaries. It also destroyed or damaged twenty-eight of the numbered targets and raised the area burned to almost one-fourth of the entire city.<ref>21st Bomber Command, Tactical Mission Report NO. 44, ocr.pdf, March 20, 1945.</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=April 2012}} Nagoya Castle, which was being used as a military command post, was hit and mostly destroyed on May 14, 1945,<ref>{{cite book |author=Preston John Hubbard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nucrbGjY_GoC&q=nagoya+bombing&pg=PA200 |title=Apocalypse Undone |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |year=1990 |isbn=9780826514011 |page=199}}</ref> followed by the [[Bombing of Yokkaichi in World War II|Yokkaichi bombing]] in June 1945. Reconstruction of the main building was completed in 1959. Later in the same year on July 26, 1945, the ''[[Enola Gay]]'' also dropped a conventional [[pumpkin bomb]] in the [[Yagoto]] area of Nagoya as part of a bombing raid in order to train for their mission to [[Hiroshima]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Richard H. |title=The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29's Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2005 |isbn=0-7864-2139-8 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina}}</ref> In 1959, the city was flooded and severely damaged by the [[Ise-wan Typhoon]].