It reads しょうわむら — Showa Mura. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Showa.
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昭和村 is read しょうわむら (Showa Mura). It is a village in Gunma Prefecture.
村 means "village" and is read mura / son. A village. 村 is read either mura or son, again by local convention rather than by rule.
Showa has a population of 6,855 across 64 km², making it the 1254th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Showa are Numata Shi (2 km), Minakami Machi (7 km), Kawaba Mura (7 km).