Japan: The Land Without Muslims

[Boo Radley]

The title is a bit misleading, but if you go on to read the article it states:

"...in Japan there are 127 million residents, but only ten thousand Muslims...[and]...a few tens of thousands of foreign workers who are Muslim, mainly from Pakistan..."

This number may be a bit on the low side when you compare it to the figure of 127,000 (0.1%) for Japan from Wikipedia below, but overall the general premise of the article is correct that there is a low percentage of Muslims compared to eg some European countries:

 

Numbers given on Wikipedia for Muslim percentage (%) of total population (2010)

Afghanistan 99.8%

Saudi Arabia 97.1%

France 7.5%

Belgium 6.0%

Thailand 5.8%

Netherlands 5.5%

Germany 5.0%

United Kingdom 4.6%

Japan 0.1%.

http://en.wikipedia....slam_by_country

 

As the article states later on:

"...The fact that the public and the officials are united in their attitude against Muslim immigration has created a sort of iron wall around Japan that Muslims lack both the permission and the capability to overcome..." probably goes a long way to explaining this low figure.

[waerth]

The article is full of wrong "facts" so totally wrong. Not just the title.

[jitagawn]

Please note the source...

[baa99]

Japan has an attitude against emigres period. It is extremely difficult for anyone to get citizenship.

[cavanami]

Japan is an island with limited space. They do not want more people living there. They encourage,

for example, older Japanese to live in their retirement in other countries.

Thailand is loaded with lo-so and med-so Japanese living in retirement.

[ALHOLK]

You don't see a lot of terrorism in Sweden and they have admitted thousands and thousands of Muslim refugees.

 

There was an atempt a while back. A bomb went of in downtown Stockholm but nobody was hurt.