IQNA – As Japan’s Muslim population grows, so does the demand for burial sites that align with Islamic practices, challenging the country’s long-standing tradition of cremation.
News ID: 3491676 Publish Date : 2025/01/31
IQNA – A cultural exhibition titled "Imam Reza Shrine with a Taste of Culture" is being held at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
News ID: 3491348 Publish Date : 2025/01/06
IQNA – During a visit to Miidera Temple, one of the four great temples in Japan, an Indonesia-based organization, sought to promote dialogue between Islam and Buddhism.
News ID: 3491197 Publish Date : 2024/12/24
IQNA – The Israeli regime will not be invited to an annual conference in Nagasaki to commemorate US nuclear bombing of Japan.
News ID: 3489325 Publish Date : 2024/07/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – While Japan’s Muslim population continues to grow, only a few cemeteries in this country, where cremation is the norm, offer burial arrangements based on their religion.
News ID: 3478865 Publish Date : 2022/05/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Japanese academic has converted to Islam after becoming interested in the religion during his religious education and says he wants to help promote it in his home country.
News ID: 3478773 Publish Date : 2022/05/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, mosques across Japan have resumed community iftar gatherings, allowing people in the country to enjoy the communal aspect that forms a central part of Ramadan for many.
News ID: 3478730 Publish Date : 2022/05/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The second interfaith dialogue between Iran and Japan was held in Tokyo on Tuesday.
News ID: 3477925 Publish Date : 2022/02/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari’s ‘Anecdotes of Pious Men’ is set to be translated into Japanese and published in the East Asian country.
News ID: 3477444 Publish Date : 2022/01/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The head of the Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in Iraq’s Parliament called the country’s national sovereignty a red line of the alliance and called for the withdrawal of US troops from the country.
News ID: 3477068 Publish Date : 2021/12/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Naoki Yamamoto is a young Japanese Muslim academic who has converted to Islam and tries to teach the religion to his compatriots in Turkey.
News ID: 3476911 Publish Date : 2021/12/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A historic Iranian mihrab which is decorated with tiles that have Quran verses on them has been installed in INAX Museum in Aichi, Japan.
News ID: 3476074 Publish Date : 2021/10/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – TAKVA is brand that aims to help Muslims in Japan and other countries in doing their religious obligations.
News ID: 3475966 Publish Date : 2021/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims in Japan hit hard by the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic received a helping hand on Sunday at one of the country's largest mosques.
News ID: 3475795 Publish Date : 2021/09/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims held the first Friday prayers at a new mosque and community center established in the Nishi Kasai district in Edogawa, one of the 23 wards of Tokyo.
News ID: 3475736 Publish Date : 2021/09/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A collection of articles and translation in Japanese of Imam Ali’s (AS) sermons in Nahjul Balagha on “how to fight Satan” was published by Tosei Sano, a professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan.
News ID: 3474475 Publish Date : 2021/04/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Between 112,000 and 230,000 people have been accepting Islam in Japan, making it one of the countries where the religion is growing rapidly.
News ID: 3474017 Publish Date : 2021/02/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Every Friday scores of Muslim men and women stream into a mosque in an unassuming four-story building in Beppu, a hot-spring mecca on Kyushu, the most southerly of Japan’s big islands.
News ID: 3473649 Publish Date : 2021/01/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – When US war jets bombed the Japanese city of Kobe in 1945 during World War II, nearly wiping out the entire city, many residents sought refuge and sanctuary in an unlikely location: Kobe Mosque, Japan's oldest surviving Muslim place of worship.
News ID: 3473252 Publish Date : 2020/11/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The number of Muslims in Japan has reached 230,000, and while Halal and other parts of their culture and customs have become more widespread in the country, there is an issue of great concern to the Muslim community -- there are almost no graves for them to be buried in as befits their beliefs.
News ID: 3472964 Publish Date : 2020/10/28
