The Study on Muslims' Social Network and their Adaptation in Kanto Metropolitan Area

2005年11月至2006年6月，我们对居住在关东都市圈的外国穆斯林进行了调查。本研究共取得有效样本203份，并于2006年8月发表初步研究报告。2006年10月，在日本社会学会举行的年度研究会议上，我们做了以下两个演讲：“关东都市圈的穆斯林调查”和“生活在日本的穆斯林的类型”。到目前为止，像这样的研究报告非常罕见，所以研究人员的兴趣相当大，他们中的许多人参与了这些主题的讨论，我们收到了许多有用的意见，以进一步研究我们的调查。除此之外，我们还在穆斯林人口研究会、日本多元文化关系学会、日本中东研究学会年度研究会上做了报告。除了穆斯林调查，我们还在东日本进行了清真寺（伊斯兰寺庙）调查，并于2006年12月出版了《清真寺调查详细记录》。2006年底，我们在马来西亚开始了“关于ALEPS（Association for Look-East Policy Students）穆斯林学生回国的调查”，目的是确认日本穆斯林和海外穆斯林之间的国际网络。然而，由于这项调查的准备工作延迟，调查于2007年2月开始。2007年夏季将公布初步调查结果。通过对日本穆斯林的调查，我们确认了日本穆斯林的生活方式因生活满意度和对日本社会的适应程度不同而不同。从长远来看，更多的穆斯林将永久居住在日本，因此，日本穆斯林与日本人之间的跨文化和跨社会交流过程将是未来日本社区问题的重要议程。

From Nov.2005 to Jun.2006, we conducted the survey for Foreign Muslims living in Kanto metropolitan area. We got 203 valid sample for our analysis, then we published a preliminary research report in Aug. 2006 using sample data except students' data. In Oct. 2006, on the occasion of annual research meeting held by the Japanese Sociological Society, we made 2 presentation as follows; " Muslim survey in Kanto metropolitan area" and " Types of Muslims living in Japan". To date, the research presentation like these has been very rare, so the researchers' interest are fairly great and many of them participated in the discussion on these themes and we received many useful comments for further study of our survey. In addition to this presentation, we made presentations at the Research meeting on Muslim population, the Japan Society for Multicultural relations, and the annual research meeting of the Japan Society for the Middle East Studies.Besides the Muslims survey, we conducted Mosque (Islamic temple) survey in East Japan, and published " Detailed Records of Mosque survey" in Dec.2006. Around the end of 2006, we have just started "Survey on Returning Muslim students of ALEPS ( Association for Look-East Policy students)" in Malaysia, because we have intended to confirm international networks between Muslims in Japan and Muslims in overseas. However, due to delay of preparation for this survey, the survey was started in Feb. 2007. So, a preliminary result will be reported in the summer of 2007.As the result of Muslim survey, we confirmed that the life style of Muslims in Japan are different according to the degree of life satisfaction and adaptation to Japanese society. In the long run, more Muslims will reside permanently in Japan, so the process of intercultural and inter-social communication between Muslims in Japan and Japanese will be great agenda for community problem in future Japan.