The murders of two Japanese nationals by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has highlighted the position of Islam in Japan, a country that before the early 20th century was a deeply isolated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...