As Japan increasingly relies on foreign workers, it is also grappling with how to integrate new cultures and religions.

Applause from the audience rang out when residents asked questions at a community hall in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.

For Pakistan's diaspora in Japan, a mosque built illegally in Kawagoe city has become a matter of predicament. The mosque, inaugurated in April in the presence of Pakistan's Ambassador to Japan, Abdul ...

For 90 years, Kobe Muslim Mosque has been not just a place of prayer, but a hub for community and cultural exchange. With tensions growing across Japan as more Muslims come to the country for work and ...

TOKYO – A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship. Welcome to the Mobile Mosque. As Japan prepares to host visitors from ...

This week on Japan Today Spotlight, we examine Japan's rapidly growing Muslim community — and the tensions that have followed. Japan has spent years building prayer rooms at airports, train stations ...

The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. A mosque that officials say was illegally constructed in ...

Ampontan explains the process about how the decision of building the first mosque in Kyushu managed to get concensus from the local community. It takes 8 years and the construction involves huge ...

A decision by a city near Tokyo to bar a mosque from holding a longstanding outdoor prayer session in one of its parks has triggered debate over multicultural coexistence in Japan, with questions ...