Visiting Japan has long been on my bucket list. The Asian nation, once our sworn enemy, is now one of our closest allies. The Japanese people adore America and have embraced our culture. But Japan is also deeply devoted to its own national identity and culture, and it should be.
We've seen what happens when a country decides — for whatever reason — to punish itself and its citizens for its national history and cultural heritage. Look at how the U.K. went from "Keep Strong and Carry On" to a nation that allowed 250,000 lower-class girls to be raped and sexually abused by Islamist invaders.
In Japan, the Muslim population has grown from about 230,000 in 2019 to more than 400,000 in 2024. The total number of foreign residents is more than four million and 2.57 million of those are working.
Earlier this year, Japanese locals in Fujisawa, a seaside city south of Tokyo protested plans to build a mosque near a Shinto shrine. That protest highlighted deeper issues with the nation's rising Islamic population.
And the BBC, who has done a lot of work to help destroy Great Britain, had the audacity to question whether or not the Japanese in Fujisawa were "struggling with [their] identity" over the mosque protests.
🇯🇵 No, BBC. We are not "struggling with our identity" in Japan. It is you who is struggling with your identity.
— 鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 (@harukaawake) October 4, 2026
We know who we are. We are Japanese. We are not Muslims. We have temples and shrines. We do not have mosques.
We will never forget who we are even if you do. pic.twitter.com/UGudPXZuqA
Today, it's a field of grass. But soon, it'll be the site of the first mosque in this Japanese town.
"It makes me worry about how our community might change," says long-time resident Noriko Izumizawa.
Plans to build an Islamic religious site in Fujisawa, a laid-back seaside town about an hour's drive south of Tokyo, have sparked a wide range of emotions.
There is anger and fear, as well as hope and acceptance, exposing the growing anxieties over immigration and social change as Japan grapples with a labour shortage from a shrinking and ageing population.
Although immigration remains politically sensitive and restrictive, Japan is increasingly relying on foreign workers to fill open jobs. That means an influx of immigrants with various cultures, languages, religions and ways of being.
So the debate that is playing out in towns like Fujisawa across the country is one that goes to the heart of how Japan sees itself.
Izumizawa is not alone in the way she feels. She is among a group of Fujisawa residents who are anxious about the increasingly visible Muslim community. She says that the polarising debates around immigration in the US and Europe have also contributed to her unease.
The Japanese have every right to be concerned. In Hamtramck, Michigan, the all-Muslim city council voted years ago to remove the LGBTQ flag from public. In Texas, an imam is demanding grocery stores stop selling pork, alcohol, and lottery tickets.
Muslims in the U.K. and elsewhere have made it very clear they're not there to assimilate, they're there to conquer and subjugate native populations under Islam.
In Germany, an Islamic preacher vowed to stone "adulterous" women once they enact Sharia law in Deutschland.
Things will be no different in Japan.
Well said. Islam is incompatible with Japanese culture and wrong for Japan.
— Charles Martel ن (@TXPolNative) October 4, 2026
Islam is compatible with every other culture on the face of the planet.
What shameful phrasing. Obviously they aren't wrestling with their identity, they are defending it. And I hope they continue to do so and not let the leftist allow their culture to be taken over. One of Japan's greatest strengths in my view is its cultural identity.
— Jamin (@Its_Jamin) October 4, 2026
Think about the audacity it took the BBC to post that. As the original poster points out, the Japanese know who they are. They're not struggling.
The British, on the other hand, are. They've allowed Islam to destroy their country, attack their culture, and then they punish the Britons who speak out about it. Who are the BBC to dictate to Japanese citizens about their identity, lecturing them on tolerance and diversity when both are destroying the United Kingdom before our very eyes?
Misery, as they say, loves company. But that doesn't mean Japan has to lower itself to Britain's level.
