Japan home to a growing Muslim presence as it embraces change | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that has seen a seven-fold increase in the number of mosques.

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