Japan-Chinese Muslim Relations

 

Summary of Japan-Chinese Muslim Relations

Only about 2% of the entire Chinese population is Muslim, but that still accounts for twenty million people or more. About half of that number is the Hui -- ethnically Chinese Muslims. Other than Xinjiang (which is treated in a separate page) the main areas that make up China’s “Koran Belt” are the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu Province, and Qinghai Province. Muslims have also long been found along the China coast.

Without a doubt, the most significant period of Japan’s interactions with Chinese Muslims came in the 1930s and early 1940s when various Japanese groups attempted to cultivate Muslim goodwill in opposition to the Chinese Nationalist government of Jiang Jieshi (Chang Kai-shek).

Economic and Trade Relations

There are no statistics that can isolate the proportion of Japan-China trade that derives from Chinese Muslim sources.

2005 Newsletters

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2006 Newsletters

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2007 Newsletters

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Information for the “Japan-Chinese Muslims Relations” page was compiled by Michael Penn.