Oizumi

Oizumi is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2015, the metropolis had an expected population of 39,996, and a population density of 2220 people in step with km². Its widespread vicinity is 18.03 km². Approximately 10% of the general populace are overseas residents, essentially Japanese Brazilians, who paintings at many factories within the metropolis. Since 1990, Japanese descendants from distant places countries were authorized to live in Japan freely.

It is envisioned that 15% of the populace talk Portuguese as their local language, and as of 2007, Oizumi has the very first-class awareness of Brazilians of any city in Japan. More recently, Nepalese and other Asians have started out settling within the metropolis. The villages of Okawa and Koizumi were created within Ora District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the advent of the municipalities machine after the Meiji Restoration.

Koizumi have become elevated to town popularity on July 25, 1902. On March 31, 1957 Koizumi merged with the village of Okawa and became renamed Oizumi. Plans to merge with neighboring Chiyoda in 2004 and with Ota in 2008 have been rejected with the resource of the local city assembly.