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===Islam=== [[File:Tokyo Camii 2009.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Tokyo Mosque]], built in [[Ottoman architecture|Ottoman style]]]] {{Main|Islam in Japan}}{{Update section|date=May 2025|reason=It uses prior to 2010 source}} [[Islam]] (イスラム教 ''Isuramukyō'') in Japan is mostly represented by small immigrant communities from other parts of [[Asia]]. In 2008, Keiko Sakurai estimated that 80–90% of the Muslims in Japan were foreign-born migrants primarily from Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nakhleh |first=Emile A. |last2=Keiko |first2=Sakurai |last3=Penn |first3=Michael |date=January 2008 |title=Islam in Japan: A Cause for Concern?", Asia Policy 5, |url=http://www.nbr.org/publications/asia_policy/Preview/AP5_IslamJapan_preview.pdf |access-date=2025-04-25 |language=en}}</ref> It has been estimated that the Muslim immigrant population amounts to 10,000–50,000 people, while the "estimated number of Japanese Muslims ranges from thousands to tens of thousands".<ref>[http://www.japanfocus.org/-kawakami-yasunori/2436#sthash.4FOVJMP9.dpuf Yasunori Kawakami, "Local Mosques and the Lives of Muslims in Japan", Japan Focus, May 2007]</ref>
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