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 you can read. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>