Sultan Nour

Sultan Nour is a Syrian-Japanese politician.
He is the first Arab Muslim local member of the assembly in Japan.

Personal life

Sultan Nour was born in Aleppo, Syria. He started learning karate at 4 years old 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.
In 2001, he moved to Japan and in 2013, he became a Japanese citizen.
He married a Syrian woman in 2016, then moved to Shōnai, Yamagata. He has a son, Yashin and a daughter, Sana. He got elected town council member of Shōnai on 18 July 2021.