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Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion 's longstanding presence in other nearby countries. Islam is one of the smallest minority faiths in Japan, having more adherents in the country than the Bahá'í faith , but fewer than Christianity .1There were isolated occasions of Muslims in Japan before the 19th century.2Today, Muslims are made up of largely immigrant communities, as well as, though smaller, the ethnic Japanese community.3In 2016, Japan accepted 0.3% of refugee applicants, many of whom are Muslims.4
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A Mosque in Tokyo The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion 's longstanding presence in other countries around the world. There are few and isolated records of contact between Islam and Japan before the opening of the country in 1853, although some Muslims did arrive in earlier centuries. The first modern Muslim contacts were with Malays who served aboard British and Dutch ships in the late 19th century. In the late 1870s, the life of Muhammad was translated into Japanese. This helped Islam to find a place in the intellectual imagination of the Japanese people, but only as a part of the history of cultures. Another important contact was made in 1890 when Ottoman Turkey dispatched a naval vessel to Japan for the purpose of saluting the visit of Japanese Prince Akihito Komatsu to Istanbul several years earlier. This frigate was called the Ertugrul , and was destroyed in a storm along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture on the evening of September 16, 1890.
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Map of Japan appears in the Cihannuma by Ibrahim Muteferrika and Katip Çelebi . The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion 's longstanding presence in other countries around the world.
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Muslims in Japan The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion 's longstanding presence in other nearby countries. Islam is one of the smallest minority faiths in Japan, representing around 0.15% of the total population as of 2022.However, due to this small initial population base, immigration from Muslim majority countries has made Islam one of the fastest growing religions in the country in terms of percentage increase, with its followers growing by 110%, from 110,000 in 2010 to 230,000 at the end of 2019, out of the total population of Japan of around 126 million.There were isolated occasions of Muslim presence in Japan before the 19th century. Today, Muslims are made up of largely immigrant communities, as well as, though smaller, the ethnic Japanese community.
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The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion 's longstanding presence in other nearby countries, and forms a minority of its historical and current population.Islam is one of the smallest minority faiths in Japan, representing around 0.28% of the total population as of early 2020. Due to a small initial population base, immigration from Muslim majority countries has made Islam one of the fastest growing religions in the country in terms of percentage increase, with its followers growing by approximately 110%, from 110,000 in 2010 to 230,000 at the end of 2019, out of the total population of Japan of around 126 million. While there were isolated occasions of Muslim presence in Japan before the 19th century, today, approximately 90% of Muslims in Japan are of foreign origin, with the rest being native Japanese converts.The Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA) .
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