Kurds in Japan

01The programme

This programme brings together Kurds living in Japan, city by city. Its charter form is a Diaspora Chapter, fitted to local law and to the risks members face.

Forming Diaspora Chapter: not yet chartered.

02Cities

• Saitama

  Kawaguchi and Warabi

  Kurds from Turkey since the 1990s (‘Warabistan’); long asylum limbo

Subdivisions of Japan

Each first-level subdivision has a local page. It gathers official services, learning, safety and civic life.

• Aichi PrefectureJP-23
• Akita PrefectureJP-05
• Aomori PrefectureJP-02
• Chiba PrefectureJP-12
• Ehime PrefectureJP-38
• Fukui PrefectureJP-18
• Fukuoka PrefectureJP-40
• Fukushima PrefectureJP-07
• Gifu PrefectureJP-21
• Gunma PrefectureJP-10
• Hiroshima PrefectureJP-34
• HokkaidoJP-01
• Hyōgo PrefectureJP-28
• Ibaraki PrefectureJP-08
• Ishikawa PrefectureJP-17
• Iwate PrefectureJP-03
• Kagawa PrefectureJP-37
• Kagoshima PrefectureJP-46
• Kanagawa PrefectureJP-14
• Kōchi PrefectureJP-39
• Kumamoto PrefectureJP-43
• Kyoto PrefectureJP-26
• Mie PrefectureJP-24
• Miyagi PrefectureJP-04
• Miyazaki PrefectureJP-45
• Nagano PrefectureJP-20
• Nagasaki PrefectureJP-42
• Nara PrefectureJP-29
• Niigata PrefectureJP-15
• Ōita PrefectureJP-44
• Okayama PrefectureJP-33
• Okinawa PrefectureJP-47
• Osaka PrefectureJP-27
• Saga PrefectureJP-41
• Saitama PrefectureJP-11Cities: 1
• Shiga PrefectureJP-25
• Shimane PrefectureJP-32
• Shizuoka PrefectureJP-22
• Tochigi PrefectureJP-09
• Tokushima PrefectureJP-36
• TokyoJP-13
• Tottori PrefectureJP-31
• Toyama PrefectureJP-16
• Wakayama PrefectureJP-30
• Yamagata PrefectureJP-06
• Yamaguchi PrefectureJP-35
• Yamanashi PrefectureJP-19

The list follows UN sources first: OCHA COD-AB, then UN SALB, then ISO 3166-2. It takes no position on any status or boundary.

Subdivisions in the profile

03How statistics see the community

Statistics record nationality only.

Counts of Kurds differ by what they measure: birthplace, citizenship, language or self-identification. Each figure names its measure, year and source, and none are summed.

The Japan profile

04Areas

• Academy

  Every field of knowledge, courses in all Kurdish varieties, and communities of practice.

• Heritage

  History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

• Language

  Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, Southern Kurdish and Gorani, in every script.

• Research

  Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

• Opportunities

  Livelihoods, skills, jobs, mentoring and diaspora-to-region bridges.

• Civic

  Civic education, rights literacy, statelessness help and dialogue.

• Development

  Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

• News and events

  Kurdish and regional news with every outlet labelled, and the calendar of Kurdish days.

05Learn in the Academy

Courses and disciplines of the Academy on the subject of this page.

A completion record shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

All disciplines