From a fighter plane factory town to a foreigner town/Buramanbo Oizumi Town1 (Gunma Prefecture)

Oizumi Town in Gunma Prefecture is the southernmost and smallest town in Gunma Prefecture. In 1957, Koizumi Town and Okawa Village merged to form Oizumi Town. In the Kanto Plain, it was a farming village on the left bank of the Tone River, and nothing more than a small town was formed along the former Ojima route (the center of the former Koizumi town) from Tatebayashi to Isesaki. The first turning point was the opening of the Nakajima Aircraft Koizumi Factory in 1930 (Showa 15) before World War II and the opening of the Ota-Koizumi Airfield in 1931 (Showa 16). In 1945 (Showa 20), after the end of the war, the facilities of the former Nakajima Airplane were requisitioned by the US military and turned into Camp Dollar, and Oizumi Town became a town with a US military base. After the land of former Nakajima Aircraft Koizumi Factory was returned in 1859 (Showa 34), it became Sanyo Electric's factory (now Panasonic Tokyo Factory). On the other hand, the former Nakajima Aircraft Ota Airfield became a factory of Fuji Heavy Industries (now SUBARU Gunma Manufacturing Oizumi Factory) after it was returned in 1969. Oizumi town developed mainly as a temple town for two factories from the high economic growth period to the bubble period.
The townscape that can be seen today is characterized by a group of buildings from the high economic growth period and a foreign shopping street where foreigners, including Brazilians, immigrated after the bubble period. Nearly 20% of the residents of Oizumi are foreigners, and there are over 40 nationalities, making Oizumi one of the most international cities in Japan. Currently, tourism is being promoted with a foreigner town, making it unique even in Japan.
Part 1 follows the remnants of Nakajima Airplane and the requisition of the US military along the Green Road, the north-south urban axis, from the SUBARU factory (former Ota Airport) to the Panasonic factory (former Koizumi Manufacturing), and present foreign countries. People parade through the shopping street.
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