The number of Muslim residents in Japan is on the rise, by some counts standing today at more than 230,000 nationwide, or around 1 in 500 people in the country. While the image of Islam as “a faith ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/islastudj.6.2.0167 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/islastudj.6.2.0167 Copy URL The research for this paper was funded in part by ...

Japan does not give citizenship or permanent residence to Muslims. Our verdict False. There is no mention of religion or Islam specifically in the requirements for becoming a Japanese national or ...

After converting to Islam over a decade ago and settling in Turkey, today a Japanese academic gives religious education in Istanbul to Muslim converts from his country. Visiting Konya in central ...

AA reports from several locations including China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and Thailand. In this exclusive file AA will be highlighting the everyday life experiences of Muslims in Asia, their ...

When one thinks of Japan, Islam’s historical presence does not come to mind. While the religion established a presence elsewhere in east Asia, cultural contact between Muslims and the country were ...

During my first trip to Japan at the end of the 1990s, I was keen to visit the Islamic Centre in Tokyo, as I had read some of what Professor Dr Saleh Mahdi Al Samraai, then head of the centre, had ...