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

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 ...

A Kurdish restaurant owner in Kawaguchi said he has been the target of frequent hateful phone calls over the past six months with the same message directed at other ethnic minorities: leave Japan.

Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit 501 (c)3 organization. MEMRI's main office is in Washington, DC, with ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / February 3, 2025 / The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) welcomes renowned Southern Kurdistan-based scholar and political scientist Himdad Mustafa as spec ...

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 ...

The event features participants dancing to folk music. The Japan Kurdish Cultural Association organized the festival in 2018, 2019 and 2023. A Warabi-based group called Zainichi Kurdjinto Tomoni ...

In northeastern Syria, there's a jihadist crisis waiting to happen. Scattered across Rojava, the Kurdish-led autonomous region that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are ...

High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Kaja Kallas, called on Turkey Friday to respect the “delicate balance” ...