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14/08/2026

"They respect boundaries so much that I can't get close enough to learn the language."

This is the first of a series. Muslims living here, in their own words. Not spokespeople, not commentators, not whoever is loudest in a comment section.

Right now a lot of the conversation about Islam in Japan is being had by people who do not look past their social media accounts. It moves fast, it gets ugly, and it lands on real families and communities.

So we're doing the slow version. Putting real people in front of the camera and asking what life here is actually like. What they love about it, the challenges they face and just general life in Japan.

These interviews are filmed as part of SMART, the Sapporo Masjid Academic Research Team, an academic research project based at the Sapporo Mosque aimed at integration initiatives and bridging communities.

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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived. I also sit down with Muslims across Japan to hear the real stories of life here.

The rest is food, travel, and whatever the girls drag me into.

👉Hear everything first - Every week I send a free newsletter on life in Japan - Link in bio

#イスラム教徒

10/08/2026

🤦‍♂️Somebody filmed himself giving the adhan inside Udo Jingu shrine in Miyazaki, put it on TikTok, and now every Muslim in this country is answering for it.

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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's local back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived.

I share real on-the-ground life and perspective on being Muslim in Japan. I also love sharing stories from real voices across Japan, the ones behind the headlines.

👉JOIN the newsletter for on-the-ground access to what Muslim life in Japan is actually like. Parenting, daily life, and the news that never makes it to the West.

Link's in the bio.

08/08/2026

Japan banned cremation in 1873... and now they're calling for the opposite!

People objected that burning a body was disrespectful.

That ban lasted under two years before it was repealed, and it is the most useful two years in this entire argument, because everybody currently talking about Japanese tradition is talking about something younger than the aeroplane.

What actually changed was not belief. It was land, cities and public health rules. Cremation only overtook burial in the 1930s and only became universal across the whole country in the 1970s.

If you have seen 土葬 doing the rounds this month, this is the history sitting underneath it.

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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's local back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived.

I share real on-the-ground life and perspective on being Muslim in Japan. I also love sharing stories from real voices across Japan, the ones behind the headlines.

JOIN the newsletter for on-the-ground access to what Muslim life in Japan is actually like. Parenting, daily life, and the news that never makes it to the West.

Link's in the bio.

#イスラム　

08/08/2026

Im getting sick of this word "Burden".

It's this word that is constantly being attached to muslims here in Japan.

An MP stood up in the Japanese parliament and said freedom of religion is not a right to demand a burden on others.
He was talking about where Muslims get buried.

He is not wrong that a country sets its own rules. He is not wrong that if a community wants something from the state, it should say so out loud and be argued with. That is fair and I would defend it.

What I cannot follow is the jump from there to here. A thing nobody has asked the state for is being described as a demand.

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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's local back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived.

I share real on-the-ground life and perspective on being Muslim in Japan. I also love sharing stories from real voices across Japan, the ones behind the headlines.

JOIN the newsletter for on-the-ground access to what Muslim life in Japan is actually like. Parenting, daily life, and the news that never makes it to the West.

Link's in the bio.

#土葬

06/08/2026

When you're told, you're told 🌳 I've got up t some silly stuff in my life but I have a feeling its only going to get sillier from this point 😅
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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived. I also sit down with Muslims across Japan to hear the real stories of life here.

The rest is food, travel, and whatever the girls drag me into.

JOIN our newsletter and hear everything first at https://zachbashir.com

02/08/2026

Japan is arguing about whether Muslims can be buried here... In Parliament!

Temples burning, mosques as no-go zones and burial. Same shape every time. A claim goes up with nothing behind it, thousands share it, and by the time anyone checks it's already sitting in people's heads as fact. Raise the problem, then present yourself as the answer to it.

Here's what I'll give the other side, because it's real. Land in Japan is genuinely tight. A town finding out a cemetery is going in nearby and having questions is not bigotry. If it was going in at the end of my street I'd have questions too.

None of that gets you to "this is foreign". None of it gets you to "it poisons the water". Those are two different arguments and only one of them has anything behind it.

Death isn't something we spend much time on until it's suddenly relevant. And it arrives fast. Someone dies on a Tuesday and the family has days, not months, to sort it. Thats not the moment to start the conversation.

We need education, we need agreements, and we need to share more information with our local community where we live regarding such issues. Inspections need to be thorough and we need regulation to satisfy anyone with a spec of doubt.
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If you're new here, I'm Zach. British Muslim, nine years in Japan, married into a Japanese family and raising two little Muslim girls in Hokkaido.

My wife and I have spent years travelling Japan's local back roads on our motorcycles, and it's the most beautiful place I've ever lived.

I share real on-the-ground life and perspective on being Muslim in Japan. I also love sharing stories from real voices across Japan, the ones behind the headlines.

👉JOIN the newsletter for on-the-ground access to what Muslim life in Japan is actually like. Parenting, daily life, and the news that never makes it to the West.

Link's in the bio.

30/07/2026

The yen is collapsing and cost of living here in Hapan is getting worse by the day… but hey least there’s a little bright side 🦷✨

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