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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In Japan, a Muslim community’s ‘straightforward request’ to bury its dead stirs hostility
became a Japanese national more than a decade ago and is a professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita prefecture. According to Khan, the YouTuber claimed that he was ...
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Where to Bury the Dead? A Pressing Dilemma for a Diversifying Japan
“Japan is my second motherland,” warmly declares Khan Muhammad Tahir Abbas, a professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Khan describes coming to Japan from his native Pakistan in 2001 ...
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How Japan plans to stop China ‘stealing the limelight’ at Trump’s inauguration
a professor of Asia-Pacific studies at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University in Japan. "[They] are most relevant to a possible contingency over Taiwan," he said. Palau has emerged as a focal point ...