The activities they launched came to be dubbed the furusato undou (" hometown movement "). Mishima-machi was swept up in the tide. It was sometime around 1974 when the" community paulownia mill "was established in Mishima-machi. The idea was to develop high-quality paulownia products to bolster the local economy and stop the population drain.
一九七四年左右，三島町開始展開設置社區桐工廠，希望藉由發展精緻桐製品來振興地方產業，留住人才。