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Topic: Other days of the Islamic calendar

Does Japan have Other days of the Islamic calendar?

Not observed here

Japan has no Islamic holiday of any kind. The national holidays are all written into the Act on National Holidays, a closed list that can be extended only by amending the law, and Japan has no mechanism for religious holidays at local level — neither prefectures nor municipalities may add one. The days on the list are secular in framing: New Year's Day, Coming of Age Day, National Foundation Day and the like, with anything once religious rewritten under a non-religious name. So the Islamic New Year and the Prophet's birthday are marked entirely inside mosques and Muslim communities, at gatherings such as those at Tokyo Camii, with no bearing on the national calendar.

What is this topic?

Beyond Ramadan and the two Eids, the Islamic calendar carries several more days: the New Year on 1 Muharram, Ashura on 10 Muharram, the Prophet's birthday, and Isra Mi'raj. Of the seven places compared here, only Indonesia and India put any of them on the official calendar — and the two do not mark the same day. Indonesia takes 1 Muharram; India's gazetted "Muharram" is the tenth, Ashura, a full ten days later in 2026. Their Mawlid dates fall a day apart. How the date is fixed, and by whom, tells you more than the date itself.

Sources and dates

Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.