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An Islamic Japan? with Dr Naoki Yamamoto

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The Importance of Islam in Japan

Japanese culture historically was very isolationist and it had a period where it's until European colonialism that it's stayed away from the world. Why didn't Islam come to Japan earlier on? Well, yeah, we haven't found the answer. But I think the biggest factor is that in the Edo Shognet, like a government, they practice this isolation policy. It was about three years 300 years. From 16th century to then, I think that was the huge implication of his isolationist policy. So I think this is one of the biggest reasons. They may need to leave right now. Right now, we don't see any like difficulties, but in the future, maybe the

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