In case there are some Japanese speakers here. . . . Keiko Sakurai, "Regarding the Islamic World": <http://www.asahi.com/ad/clients/waseda/opinion/opinion138.html>.
Here's Dr. Sakurai's page at Waseda University's Web site: <http://www.waseda.jp/sils/jp/about/faculty/sakurai_keiko.html>. She has published three books that sound extremely interesting: School Textbooks in the Revolutionary Iran, 1999 Modern Iran, 2001 Muslim Society in Japan, 2003 But I'm afraid they have not been translated into English or any other language. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
