An Egyptian-born Muslim who naturalized as a Japanese citizen and works as an assistant professor at a Japanese university climbed onto a war memorial monument inside a Buddhist temple in Kumamoto Prefecture — with his shoes still on — and loudly recited the Islamic call to prayer Azan.
Japan lost more than three million lives in WWII.
There are over 16,000 similar war memorials across the country.
These are sacred places for quiet remembrance and prayer — not places to shout the name of Allah.