Chapter 264 – Ootori’s Truck Factory (2)

Amid a strange headwind, Ootori Motors acquired a vast tract of land within Kawasaki City and began construction of a massive new Ford-style factory.

The location was Hiyoshi in Kawasaki, near the Tama River. Just a few days earlier, Keio University had also acquired land in Hiyoshi less than a kilometer away.

Well, Torasaburo had simply been looking for a place that was easy to commute to from his home, so it was probably just a coincidence.

In any case, they built an enormous structure there, so large it distorted one’s sense of distance in a way that felt utterly un-Japanese, and installed a freshly imported Ford-style production line inside.

However, there was still plenty of land left over, leaving ample room for future expansion of the factory.

And it wasn’t just the truck factory. Under Ootori Machinery Industries, which handled everything