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Turks in Japan (Japanese: 在日トルコ人（ざいにちトルコじん）; Turkish: Japonya Türkleri) are Turks living in Japan. The term has historically included Turkic (particularly Volga Tatar) émigrés and immigrants from former Russian Empire most of whom later acquired Turkish citizenship.
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History
In the early 20th century, groups of Tatars immigrated from Kazan, Russia, to Japan. The community became led by the Bashkir émigré imam Muhammed-Gabdulkhay Kurbangaliev who had fought on the side of the White movement in the Russian Civil War, and arrived in Japan in 1924; he then set up an organisation to bring together the Tatars living in Tokyo. Tatars in Japan founded their first mosque and school in 1935 in Kobe, and another in Tokyo in 1938, with support from Kurbangaliev's organisation. Another Tatar organisation, the Mohammedan Printing Office in Tokyo, printed the first Qur'an in Japan as well as a Tatar-language magazine in Arabic script, the Japan Intelligencer; it continued publication until the 1940s. Most of the Tatars emigrated after World War II. Those remaining took up Turkish citizenship in the 1950s.
Though the Turkish community has diminished in size, those remaining founded the Tokyo Camii and Turkish Cultural Center in 2000. In the following decade, there was a new wave of migration from Turkey, mostly consisting of people from the Fatsa area.
Some(~1000) Turkish citizens in Japan are ethnic Kurds.
In the Tokyo-crime register 2015, Turks are the second most crimilal non-Japanese ethnic group after Koreans.
Turkish embassy incident
A clash took place outside the Turkish embassy in Tokyo between Kurds and Turks, it was claimed by Kurdish sources that this began when the Turks assaulted the Kurds after a Kurdish party flag was shown at the embassy.