Japanese truck plant

November 2, 2017

A truck passes a Hino sign in Williamstown, West Virginia, October 27, 2017.

In the small-town heart of the industrial Ohio River basin, unemployment is declining, the local Japanese truck plant is expanding, and optimism has mushroomed -- a microcosm of Donald Trump's reinvigorated America one year after his election. The Hino truck assembly plant in Williamstown, Virginia, produces about 55 trucks a day and will expand starting in 2019, moving to the nearby town of Mineral Wells, WV. Jiji Press