Back الإسلام في اليابان Arabic জাপানত ইছলাম ধৰ্ম Assamese Yaponiyada islam Azerbaijani জাপানে ইসলাম Bengali/Bangla ئیسلام لە ژاپۆن CKB Islam in Japan German Ισλάμ στην Ιαπωνία Greek اسلام در ژاپن Persian Islam au Japon French אסלאם ביפן HE
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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 0.18% of the total population as of 2019.[1] Despite 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.[2][3][4]
While there were isolated occasions of Muslim presence in Japan before the 19th century, today, approximately 95% of Muslims in Japan are of foreign origin, with the rest being native Japanese converts.[5][6]
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