Ikuto Hongu, the 25-year-old CEO of Halal Navi, is a free app that directs users to restaurants offering halal food, mosques and other prayer rooms. The app also serves as a platform for Muslim visitors to Japan to share practical tips.
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Information about halal food and prayer is essential for Muslims, yet until now, there hadn’t been a multilingual, nationwide tool to provide it.
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Garthgoyle
Went haven't they themselves made one, then?
Mr Kipling
This is Japan, while here step away from your diet oppression. Nobody will know or care.
sakurasuki
@Mr Kipling
Those tourist not the one who really need it but Japanese business establishment that really need those tourist money. The fact that more and more business establishment and services in Japan provide their diet needs, it shows that more and more tourist from those countries are coming.
https://univdatos.com/report/halal-tourism-market/
https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/halal-tourism-industry-overview-market-26388
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Money from those tourist does talk louder.
Nobody care about this statement.
Aly Rustom
Exactly.
And catering to people's needs and being sensitive is not a bad thing. If the original statement was geared towards vegetarians, no one would be saying that
YeahRight
I am so glad that I gave up religion and all its silly dietary and other rules.
Sven Asai
It's only that we unbelievers in Western democracies think we should provide and pamper them with halal food, mosques, prayer rooms and such. The Muslims are only obliged to act accordingly to their religion within the dar-al-Islam, house of Islam, which describes own countries and territories. Outside of the Islamic part of the world , in the so-called dar-al-harb, house of war, they can and should live such only if they want and the conditions are available, but they by no means have to do. If there's only non-halal equal haram food available , like alcohol and porc meat, theoretically, they can consume it too. The same for prayers which can then be done silently, standing, only one time instead five times a day, and so on. I recommend a bit more pragmatism and that they have to abide to the conditions they find elsewhere, not us making our world compatible and pleasant only for them.
wallace
We use Gyomu which sells Halal foods. Kobe is a good city for Halal foods and restaurants.
sakurasuki
@Sven Asai
Which clerk you are following that's so misleading, and by now no excuse for those people to live like that, why because now mosque and halal store are everywhere, if not they can still go to places that cater vegan/vegetarian diet.
Our world? Whose world is this world?
Business communities in Japan more and more interested to serve their needs, again money talks. https://univdatos.com/report/halal-tourism-market/
https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/halal-tourism-industry-overview-market-26388
Aly Rustom
So do we. The frozen Brazilian Halal chicken there is the cheapest we have found and it is a godsend (no pun intended) in this time of inflation.
wallace
We buy two at a time for ¥900 each. I do a rotisserie roast in my air fryer oven.