Only 10 plots in all of Japan. Where will Muslims bury their dead?
Muslims in Japan are having a tough time. The growing community in the Asian nation is struggling to find burial plots and ...
In Japan, a Muslim community’s ‘straightforward request’ to bury its dead stirs hostility
Misleading reports and social media attacks have sought to block plans for a Muslim cemetery in the town of Hiji in southern ...
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Japan home to a growing Muslim presence as it embraces change
“We Japanese were previously unfamiliar with Muslims,” said Hirofumi Okai, an associate professor of sociology at Kyoto Sangyo University who studies Islamic culture.
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Muslims living in Japan face difficulties burying the dead
The Muslim population continues to grow in Japan, but only a few cemeteries in this country, where cremation is the norm, offer burial arrangements based on their religion. An estimated 230,000 ...
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Growing Muslim population in need of burial plots in Japan
OITA (Kyodo) -- With an increasing number of Muslims living in Japan, there has been a growing demand for burial plots to ...
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Barrier-free Beauty for Muslim Women in Japan
Japan has seen a sharp rise in tourism from Muslim countries over the past several years. Indonesia and Malaysia in particular accounted for more than 700-thousand visitors combined in 2017.
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In Japan, a Muslim community’s ‘straightforward request’ to bury its dead stirs hostility
A wave of social media hostility is thwarting a simple request from a Muslim community in Japan: the right to bury their dead according to their faith. In September 2020, the Beppu Muslim ...