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.