Sultan Nour (Japanese: ã¹ã«ã¿ã³ãÂȋÂÂã¼ã«; born 20 August 1971) is a Syrian-Japanese politician.
He is the first Arab Muslim local member of the assembly in Japan.
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 Shà Ânai, Yamagata. He has a son, Yashin (Japanese: ç¢é²) and a daughter, Sana (Japanese: 彩èÂÂ). He got elected town council member of Shà Ânai on 18 July 2021.