DBAHC: Million-city Hiroshima

Zachariah

Banned
Hiroshima is known worldwide as the city which suffered from the first ever atomic bombing, and understandably, it never really managed to recover from that nuclear cataclysm- its population has finally managed to surpass its pre-bombing size of 340,000 in the past couple of years, and its metropolitan area has risen above the half-million threshold, but it's still a far cry from its former prominence.

So, here's your AHC- with a POD after the Enola Gay's dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, your challenge is to increase the city of Hiroshima's population to at least 1M, and its metropolitan area's population to at least 2M, by the present day. Is it possible?

(*DBAHC)
 
This is a stretch, but Maybe Mazda takes off in the 1960s and this encourages expansion of their plant, which in turn brings more investment from part suppliers, which in turn leads more automobile companies to move there?
 

Zachariah

Banned
This is a stretch, but Maybe Mazda takes off in the 1960s and this encourages expansion of their plant, which in turn brings more investment from part suppliers, which in turn leads more automobile companies to move there?
Hmm, seems like a bit of a long shot. Might be enough to add an extra 100,000 residents at most, but you'd still be less than halfway there. What else could be done to bring Hiroshima's population up?
 
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