Nagata conjectured that everyM -space is homeomorphic to a closed subspace of the product of a countably compact space and a metric space. This conjecture was refuted by Burke and van Douwen, and A. Kato, independently. However, we can show that there is a c.c.c. poset P of size 2 such that in V P Nagata’s conjecture holds for each first countable regular space from the ground model (i.e. if a ...