This book offers a useful and extensive account of Japan¿s past discoveries and present interactions with Muslim states and societies across Asia. Bearing in mind the U.S.-led global meta-narrative of Islam spoken in tandem with security and threats, this book examines how this reconciles with Japan¿s self-proclaimed ¿values-based¿ approach to diplomacy across Asia in the twenty-first century. The author considers Japan¿s historic conceptualization and learning of Islam, and its acute needs for access to markets and energy from Muslim-majority states in Asia. He also argues that Japan securitizes Islam in a manner distinct from Western, Russian, or Chinese securitization today, but that Japan promotes itself as a model for human security and development across an Asia inclusive of Muslim states. Japan¿s approach to Islam and Muslim societies today offers much from which other great powers can learn.