Japan

The Advancing of Diversified Global Society and Career in Japan Japan’s population is decreasing year by year. It is said to be a “declining birthrate and aging society” with few young people and many elders. This declining birthrate and aging population cause the decreasing of the working-age population which led to the increasing demand for labor from outside Japan. In …

I’ve always thought that Islam has the ability to embed itself so seamlessly and so peacefully within Japanese culture and society, if only we let it. JESSICA AYA HARN We are notoriously known for being private in Japan. And when it comes to religion, we are extra, extra, extra private. It just wouldn’t make sense to be overtly religious in …

Migrant workers and local converts are swelling the ranks of the country’s small but significant Muslim communityThe number of mosques in Japan has grown from four in the 1980s to 110, a Japanese expert on Islam has said (AFP)There were “hardly any Arabs in the country” says Mohamed Shokeir about the first time he travelled to Japan in 1981 to …

Islam's relation with Japan is quite recent as compared to those with other countries around the world. There are no clear records of any contact between Islam and Japan nor any historical traces of Islam coming into Japan through religious propagation of any sort except for some isolated cases of contact between individual Japanese and Muslims of other countries before …