A news video originally broadcast by TV Asahi Corp. about Kurds living in Japan was heavily edited and uploaded on social media apparently to portray the minority group as a terrorist threat.

Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...

He agreed to tell The Asahi Shimbun how his social media posts from Turkey promoted anti-Kurd sentiment in Japan, and why he did it. Discrimination against Kurds in Japan, particularly in ...

I had no idea he had been through something like that," he said. This year marks Dursun's 10th year in Japan. As Kurds have seen a growing trend of hate speech against them in Japan, he worries as ...

The book, written by Tetsuya Nawada, primarily focuses on Northern Kurmanji, one of the main dialects of the Kurdish language ...

A demonstration group advocating for the exclusion of Kurds in Japan, left, and citizens counter-protesting against them are seen in front of JR Warabi Station in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture ...

SAITAMA -- The Saitama District Court on Nov. 21 issued a provisional injunction to halt demonstrations advocating Kurdish exclusion around the office of the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association.

Kurdish fighters attempted to establish an independent homeland in Iran in 1946, but their success was only temporary. (photo: Mahmud Efendi, courtesy www.akaKURDISTAN.com) The first -- and brief ...

finding a new life in Japan Dursun was born and raised in Izmir, a port city in western Turkey along the Aegean Sea, where he worked as a shoemaker. However, as a member of the Kurdish minority ...