Published: 17 July 2026Reading Time: 5 mins Shinji KojimaRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University Atsushi YamagataUniversity of Wollongong In Brief Japan's Muslim community has grown rapidly to around 420,000 people, but intense opposition to a mosque construction in Fujisawa in 2025 illustrates how anti-Muslim sentiment is becoming more organised and politically emboldened, fuelled by social media misinformation…
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