UNHCR, Japan ink $4.5M deal to support Rohingya in Bangladesh
BY ANADOLU AGENCY DHAKA FEB 22, 2023 – 7:21 PM GMT+3 Rohingya refugee children look on at the Jamtoli camp in the morning in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Jan. 22, 2018. (Reuters […]
Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young
Japan Analysis Justin McCurry in Tokyo Fumio Kishida says lifting the birthrate ‘cannot wait’ yet policies stick to scripts that have so far failed to address the country’s population crisis […]
The world’s most powerful passport for 2023 revealed
DESTINATIONSFOOD & DRINKNEWSSTAYVIDEO Search Maureen O’Hare, CNN • Published 10th January 2023 1/11 World’s most powerful passports: Global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners has released its quarterly report on the […]
Most Atheist Countries 2022
Arguably the opposite of religion, atheism is a disbelief in the existence of God or any other divine being. The term “atheist” is slightly ambiguous. It is frequently applied to a wide range of spiritual stances, from people who’ve simply never considered the existence of a higher power to those […]
Japan PM Kishida’s support tumbles, hit by questions over church and COVID
Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 10, 2022. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo TOKYO, […]
Japanese academic becomes Muslim, plans to promote Islam
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL MAY 05, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Ali Hiroaki Kawanishi poses for a photo in Tübingen, Germany, May 2, 2022. (AA Photo) RECOMMENDED Journey of the heart: Man walks […]
Muslims living in Japan face difficulties burying the dead
By SAORI KURODA/ Staff Writer May 11, 2022 Graves for Muslims in Honjo Kodama Seichi Reien in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture (Saori Kuroda) The Muslim population continues to grow in Japan, […]
Tokyo Olympics: German women’s gymnastics team wears full-body suits
25 July 2021.From the section Olympics Source: BBC Germany’s gymnasts wore full-body suits in women’s qualification at the Olympics as they continued their stand against the sexualisation of their sport. […]
First Hijab wearing basketball referee out to blaze trail at Tokyo Olympics
Sarah Gamal will be refereeing 3-on-3 basketball.By Hatem Maher 18 July 2021 1:27 A brief history of the OlympicsGreek mythology says the esteemed sporting competition was founded by a cheater. […]
Arabic calligraphy’s fusion with Japanese captures beauty of both worlds
Noha Raheem says when she was younger, she discovered the three famous Japanese written scripts — including Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana — and she was awestruck. (Supplied) Short Url https://arab.news/9344g […]
Shotaro Noda: Ottoman journey makes him 1st Japanese Muslim
BY MEHMET HASAN BULUT ISTANBUL PORTRAIT JUN 01, 2021 The first relations between the Islamic world and Japan began at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate or the Edo shogunate, the feudal […]
The Way of the Warrior: Samurais and Spirituality
Naba Ghauri Syed WORLD RELIGIONS 26th January 2021 Naba Ghauri Syed, Japan https://www.reviewofreligions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/samurai-warrior-smalll-shutterstock_1345891196-768×768.jpeg ‘There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These […]
The number of Muslims in Japan is growing fast
Source: Economist But locals are wary of building facilities for them Every friday scores of Muslim men and women stream into a mosque in an unassuming four-storey building in Beppu, […]
Fukushima reactor water could damage human DNA if released, says Greenpeace
Japan disaster Environmental organisation says ‘dangerous’ levels of carbon-14 exist in water that could soon be released into Pacific ocean Workers stand near storage tanks for radioactive water at the […]
The Nuclear Risk Is “Higher Than it has been since the Darkest Days of the Cold War”
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: Spiegel International 75 Years after Hiroshima In an interview, Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations’ […]
Marking 75 Years Since the Hiroshima Bombing – Have We Learned Our Lessons?
Sabahat Ali CONTEMPORARY AND SOCIAL ISSUES 6th August 2020 Models in Hiroshima museum depicting the scene after the nuclear bomb was dropped. The skin of those directly affected literally melted […]
At Least Two Controlled Studies From China Supporting Avigan for Covid 19
Chinese official says Fujifilm’s Favipiravir could treat Covid-19 Source: Pharmaceutical Technology Dated March 18,2020 China’s Science and Technology Ministry official Zhang Xinmin has said that Japan-based Fujifilm’s anti-flu drug Favipiravir […]
The Promise of the Japanese Medication, Avigan
Source: WIRED Japan Is Racing to Test a Drug to Treat Covid-19 Based on a compound discovered in 1998, the antiviral favipiravir is already being used in Japan and Turkey. […]
Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: The Guardian By Justin McCurry in Tokyo […]