Japanese people related to Islam

 Hello, everyone. Today, I will introduce to you about Japanese people related to Islam. I am students of university of Tsukuba. There are many professors and teachers in this university. They conduct many kinds of reserches. But sometimes I cannot understand its concepts and its necessity because those reserches are minor theme for me. However, I become intersted in the Japanese reserchers of Islam because I strived to write these blog entries. In addtion, I found the strange event involved with Uviversity of Tsukuba and Islam research. This is shocking murder case in Univ of Tsukuba in 1991.

1. Japanese Islam researcher, Toshihiko Idutsu

 He is the first person who transrate Koran from an arabic to Japanese. He was the interpreter of arabic for the arabian executives in world war Ⅱ. At that time, he was requested to study arabic paper by Shumei Okawa who was researchers and he conducted it and developed his islam knowledge. After that, in 1958, he published Japanese-Koran. His translated Koran has been admired with his skillful language techniques. It is said that he could read Koran in arabic as soon as he started to study arabic only mouth and also said that he could use and understand 30 laungages.

Next story is the person who is the disciple of Idutsu.

2. Who killed Hitoshi Igarashi and why he would be killed?

 Hitoshi Igarashi was the disciple of Toshihiko Idutsu. He was also genius as well as his master. He tought his students in University of Tsukuba. Suddenly, he was killed by someone and passed away.

 He was killed in elevatorhall of univ of Tsukuba in july 11th, 1991. There were some evidences of murder. The reason why he was killed is  his translation of the novel, the satanic verses, which was written by Sir Salman Rushdie. This novel has the anti-islamic aspects. So, Khomeini, the Iran leader, commanded to kill the person who involving with publishing the novel. Therefore, it seemed that the criminal would be foreign muslim. CIA also had  same view because they seemed that the killer want to show off his crime, killing in the evevatorhall. In addtion, a Bangladesh student was suspected by immigration office. But he got back to Bangladesh next day Igarashi killed. So, Japanese government stopped to investigate for the fear of getting international relations bad. On the other hand, Janapnese police suspected that he was killed by other Japanese people. And also, there was the memo note which indicated that he felt targeted to be killed by someone.(but this would be metophor) As the result, the murder have not arrested yet and statute of limitations has gone.

3.conclusion

 I have heard the rumor about Hitoshi Igarashi. But I do not know the reason why he was killed.(There is a posibility that he was killed by other reason...but we have only way to image the reason from the situation and evidence) I want to know the turth of this killing. Who killed him and why did the murder killed him. I live in Tsukuba, near the Univ of Tsukuba. Maybe we are the nearest people who able to know the truth of all about that.

Islam countries that we don't know

 Hello, everyone. I have written about detail of Islam knowledge before. But I realized that we should know about which countries have much muslim population. We should know about more simple knowledge of Islam as children learn in geography classes. If you hear the news and infomation about those Islam countries, these simple knowledge and data will help your understandings of international relations. I think that you maybe surprised by the new findings. Today, I will introduce to you Islamic countries that we do not know.


1. Indonesia

1-1 What is Indonesia?

 Indonesia is very long country which is about 5,110 km from east to west. It is consisted of 18,110 islands. But Indonesia government dosen't know whether this data is true or not. Its population is over 230 million people. It is known as most muslim living country.

1-2 The economy of Indonesia

 Indonesia is agricultual contry. They made cacao, cabbage, coconuts, rice, coffee, sweet potato, soybeans, tobacco, tea, gom, corn, pineapple, banana, and peanuts. The most coconuts producing country is Indonesia. And also, they have a lot of mineral resources such as gold, tin, oil, coal, gas, bronze, nickel. Japan imports amout of "LNG" made from gases from Indonesia. In addition, the industry also is increasing.

1-3 The religions in Indonesia

 The constitution of Indonesia assure to believe the religions as they want. Indonesia is the multiracial country. So, religions is various as well as the language.  Accroding to statistics data,  Islam is 76.5%,  Christianity is 13.1%, Hindi is 3.4% and so on.
 There are 170 million muslims in Indonesia. This means that Indonesia has the most large muslim population in the world. Thought the total ratio of muslims of population  is very high ,  on the other hands, there are also the people who believe other religions in small islands.

1-4 other information of Indonesia

 In indonesia, badminton is very popular sports. The gold medals of Olympic games that Indonesia won are almost badminton.

 Recently,  JKT48, the branch group of AKB48, started in Jakarta, Indonesia.


2-1 Islamic Republic of Mauritania

 Mauriatania is located in northwest Africa. There are many famous countries, Algeria, Mari, Senegal near Mauritania.

2-2 The economy of Mauritania

 Moauritania exports octopus to Japan.
 After 1960, Mauritania started to dig natural resouces to develop the society and economic. As the result, mining industry and fishery have been strongened. Recently, they started to dig the oil field on ocean. This has the posibility to become main industry of Mauritania.



















3. conclusion

 This entry, I introduced to you about minor islam countires that you will not know. Do you know about aspects of islam character of Indonesia. Do you know the existence of Mauritania? Surprisingly, there are many countries that muslims live. These facts affect international relationships and our understandings of it. So,  I think that these knowledge as learned from geography is very important.

Think About Women Rights

 Hello, everyone! Two days ago, I was wathing the TV program "Houdou Station" in the night. The girl sitting on the bed in the hosptal was interviewed by TV reporter. Why is she in the hospital? Because she was attaked and shooted by Islam Fundamental group, "TTP". She had written her ideas to other people on her blog that she did not support Taliban and resisted their cruel actions. She had also said that every muslim girls have the right to be educated. These her opinions made their angry. As the result, she was harmed.
 According to Nikkei News Paper articul in the November 9th, this event cause the international interests about right of education and thought.
 Today, I will introduce about women rights in Islam world.

1. The position of women.

 In the modern Islamic world, many conventions that discriminate the women  are still conducted. In Saudi Arabia, the women behaviors are strictkly limited. They are not allowed to drive the car. In Iran, the women must wear the vail.
 On the other hand, there are the active campaigns to stop the discrimination for the women. These contents are to prohibit the monogamy, the domestic violences, to permit the divorce by the women. In the developed Islam country, the lows are changing now. In Turkey, the women play important  role such as government officer in the society. In pakstan, one of the famous Islamic country, there was the woman primeminister. But if there are many conservative people, changings do not promote speedy.

2. Education in Pakistan.

 Every girls in Pakstan have the rights to be educated. It is not prohibited by Islam low. But their rights are violated. Why are not their rights saved?
 There is the Islamic fundamental group, TTP, which is affcted by "Taliban". Their intention is to create the country based on the strict Islam doctrines. They reject the equality of men and women. They also don't permit the working and education of the women. They have been conducting the terrorism, such as destroying the schools.  They had destroyed 751 schools in the 10 years.
 The Education minister of Pakistan said that they think that they can dominate Pakistan if there are no education in Pakistan. He also said that people encourage to save the schools but it is not enough.
 Here is the very ironic words said by the girl in the Pakistan,  "TPP members are not educated, thefore, they can not think profoundly and dislike something new. So they also should be educated. This is so logical that everybody who hear it will agree with this.

3. In the end.

 Almost developed countries such as Japan, America, and europiean countries are equal between the sexes. People in these countries are not prohabited to do something by the gender. But gender equuality is not guaranteed in many Islam countries. In the modern world, should the discrimination for the women be allowed if the reason is the doctorines of religion? This is the so dificult question that we can not solve easily. But I think taht school destroying in Pakstan should be stopped. The children are innocent.