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    Japan police face lawsuit from foreign residents for repeated stops and searches without cause- "We routinely stopped and questioned foreigners who didn't appear suspicious, asking them to show their residence cards." One Plaintiff was stopped and questioned 15 times before suing
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    Japan police face lawsuit from foreign residents for repeated stops and searches without cause- “We routinely stopped and questioned foreigners who didn’t appear suspicious, asking them to show their residence cards.” One Plaintiff was stopped and questioned 15 times before suing


    Japan police face lawsuit from foreign residents for repeated stops and searches without cause- “We routinely stopped and questioned foreigners who didn’t appear suspicious, asking them to show their residence cards.” One Plaintiff was stopped and questioned 15 times before suing

    https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV6932K2V69UTIL02KM.html?ref=tw_asahicom

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    1. Maleficent-Cook-3668 on

      Man that article thumbnail goes hard. Everyone’s posed like a movie poster.

    2. MidoriHaru on

      I, a white woman, have been in Japan for almost 30 years but I’ve never been stopped and asked for my ID.

      Could they just perhaps also be racially profiling people?

    3. ANTIMODELMINORITY on

      The question is why does Japan allow these people in here in the first place.

    4. RefRide on

      Yeah every black person or non Japanese looking Asian I know gets stopped at least once a year. As a white guy I didn’t get stopped for decades until Covid happened, then they ran out of foreigners and I got stopped multiple times. Even told me “There are so few of you here now days” so definitely out hunting.

    5. ongogavlogian on

      I was in Osaka last month, after a whole day of shopping I decided to sit outside the Namba station on park bench. Within a minute, three plain clothes officers came in front of me and literally blocked me from all three sides. They asked me to show identification and asked what I was doing to in Japan. I complied, gave the guy my passport and while I was typing in Google translate to reply to them, one officer started opening up my shopping bags and backpack. I showed them my travel visa and they left without any explanation. I repacked everything, collected my thoughts about what just happened, never in my 20 years of travel I have experienced something like this. I saw them doing the same thing with another brown guy.
      So yes, it is very racially motivated.
      They need sensitivity training, hopefully the lawsuit will bring some changes.