A project which takes the Nakasendo highway in Japan as a metaphor through which a wide variety of topics are introduced. This project, by Dr Richard Irving, Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and Dr Thomas A. Stanley, formerly with the Department of History, University of Hong Kong, began as a multimedia CD-ROM project. The project contains some 250 articles of various, usually substantial, lengths (some 130,000 words in total), nearly 200 glossary items (definitions) and over 300 photographs, maps and illustrations.