Nissan announced on July 15, 2025, that its Oppama plant will cease production by the end of fiscal year 2027. Vehicle manufacturing operations will be transferred to Nissan Motor Kyushu located in Fukuoka Prefecture.

Nissan is reportedly in talks with Taiwan’s Foxconn to build electric vehicles at its underutilised Oppama plant in Japan. The potential tie-up could protect

Opened in the early 1960s, Oppama helped power Nissan’s rise to a global automotive powerhouse in the postwar period as one of Japan’s first large-scale production sites and the first auto plant in the country to use welding robots in 1970.