The Japan Kurdish Cultural Association filed a lawsuit against journalist Takaaki Ishii in March, claiming he has repeatedly defamed Kurdish residents of Japan through his online posts. Ishii has ...

Hidenobu Matsuzawa bashfully accepted an invitation for a meal offered by a grateful woman, one of the countless Kurdish people in Japan he has helped over the past 25 years.

WARABI, Japan – Mazlum Balibay paves Japan’s roads, digs its sewers and lays its water pipes – all for a country that doesn’t want him. Balibay, 24, is a Kurdish asylum seeker who fled to ...

Scuffles have broken out between Turks and Kurds in the Japanese capital as hundreds of Turkish citizens had gathered at their embassy for early voting in Turkey’s elections. Several people were ...

It is not only Kurds who are exposed to such abuse. A support group in Japan providing Japanese language lessons and medical support has also been targeted through emails and other means.

Regarding Kurds living in Japan, discriminatory posts on social media have increased since around 2023, and demonstrations have been held in Saitama Prefecture.

Asking why Kurds can’t “behave” themselves when not all Japanese people behave themselves is strange to me. Is the message supposed to be “Japanese people can do anything they want in Japan”?

The Japan Kurdish Cultural Association revealed during a Feb. 12 press conference in the city of Saitama that it had sued the man, a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture who claims to have organized ...

The scene is unremarkable, save for the fact that the boy, Boran, is not Japanese but Kurdish. Warabi and the surrounding area are home to around 2,000 Turkish Kurds, a number that has quadrupled ...

In Japan, Kurds face a struggle to navigate their way through the toughest refugee entrance system among advanced economies. Estimates indicate that there are around 1,200 Kurds living in Warabi ...

Japan Tel: +81 3 5829 5900 Fax: +81 3 5829 5919 Email: [email protected] ©2025 GPlusMedia Inc. Here and Now. kuchikomi Kurds living in Kawaguchi repeatedly find themselves in the news. ...