Turks in Japan

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Turks in Japan
Japonya Türkleri
在日トルコ人（ざいにちトルコじん）
Total population
4,444 (2010)[1]
Languages
Japanese · Turkish
Religion
Sunni Islam
Population figure given is for citizens of Turkey living in Japan. The Turkish Embassy gives a lower figure of 2,264 (2006); however, this counts only citizens who have voluntarily registered at the embassy.[2]

Turks in Japan (Japanese: 在日トルコ人（ざいにちトルコじん）; Turkish: Japonya Türkleri) are Turks living in Japan. The term has historically included Turkic (particularly Volga Tatar) émigrés and immigrants from former Russian Empire most of whom later acquired Turkish citizenship.

History

In the early 20th century, groups of Tatars immigrated from Kazan, Russia, to Japan.[3] The community became led by the Bashkir émigré imam Muhammed-Gabdulkhay Kurbangaliev who had fought on the side of the White movement in the Russian Civil War, and arrived in Japan in 1924; he then set up an organisation[fn 1] to bring together the Tatars living in Tokyo.[3] Tatars in Japan founded their first mosque and school in 1935 in Kobe, and another in Tokyo in 1938, with support from Kurbangaliev's organisation.[3][4] Another Tatar organisation, the Mohammedan Printing Office in Tokyo,[fn 2] printed the first Qur'an in Japan as well as a Tatar-language magazine in Arabic script, the Japan Intelligencer;[fn 3] it continued publication until the 1940s.[3] Most of the Tatars emigrated after World War II.[3] Those remaining took up Turkish citizenship in the 1950s.[2]

A former Ottoman prince was involved in a plot with the Japanese to enthrone him as monarch of a puppet state in Central Asia during the Kumul Rebellion.

Though the Turkish community has diminished in size, those remaining founded the Tokyo Camii and Turkish Cultural Center in 2000.[3][5] In the following decade, there was a new wave of migration from Turkey, mostly consisting of people from the Fatsa area.[6]

Some Turkish citizens in Japan are ethnic Kurds.[7]

Turkish embassy incident

A clash took place outside the Turkish embassy in Tokyo between Kurds and Turks, it was claimed by Kurdish sources that this began when the Turks assaulted the Kurds after a Kurdish party flag was shown at the embassy.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

Prominent Turks (Volga Tatars) in Japan

  • Osman Yusuf (aka Johnny Yuseph, 1920 - 1982): Actor
  • Abdul Hannan Safa (aka Roy James, 1929 - 1982): Actor, naturalised in 1971
  • Ömer Yusuf (aka Yusef Toruko ("Yusuf the Turk"), 1930 - 2013): Puroresu referee and actor, brother of Osman Yusuf

Gallery

  • Memorial to the Turkish victims of the sunken ship in Japan

  • Chinatown - Turkish Ice Cream.jpg

    Turks in Japan selling Dondurma

  • Maraş dondurması in Kyoto.jpg

    Turkish ice cream in Kyoto

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Known in Japanese as the 東京回教団 (Tokyō Kaikyōdan?)
  2. ↑ Tatar: Tokyo'da Mätbää-i İslamiyä; Japanese: 東京回教印刷所 (Tōkyō Kaikyō Insatsusho)
  3. ↑ Tatar: Yapon mohbiri

References

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  8. ↑ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/turks-kurds-clash-japan-turkey-elections-151025194639100.html
  9. ↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/25/national/seven-injured-clashes-outside-turkish-embassy/
  10. ↑ http://sputniknews.com/asia/20151025/1029071175/kurds-turks-fight-in-japan.html
  11. ↑ https://www.rt.com/news/319619-turkey-embassy-kurds-clashes/
  12. ↑ http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/25/434883/Turkey-Japan-Tokyo-Clashes-Snap-elections-
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3uQ7rSmkrI

Further reading

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