Sultan Nour

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Sultan Nour (Japanese: スルタン・ヌール ; born 20 August 1971^[1]) is a Syrian-Japanese politician.

He is the first Arab Muslim local member of the assembly in Japan.^[2]

Personal life

Sultan Nour was born in Aleppo, Syria.^[3] He started learning karate at 4 and started to gain interest in Japan. At 12, he moved to Egypt. He graduated from a sports university, and became a national public officer in Egypt.^[4]

In 2001, he moved to Japan and in 2013, he became a Japanese citizen.^[4]

He married a Syrian woman in 2016, then moved to Shōnai, Yamagata. He has a son, Yashin (Japanese: 矢進) and a daughter, Sana (Japanese: 彩菜).^[3] He got elected town council member of Shōnai on 18 July 2021.^[4]

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