Die japanische Polizei sieht sich wegen wiederholter Kontrollen und Durchsuchungen ohne Grund mit Klagen ausländischer Einwohner konfrontiert: „Wir haben routinemäßig Ausländer angehalten und befragt, die nicht verdächtig wirkten, und sie aufgefordert, ihre Aufenthaltskarten vorzuzeigen.“ Ein Kläger wurde vor der Klageerhebung 15 Mal angehalten und befragt
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Man that article thumbnail goes hard. Everyone’s posed like a movie poster.
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?
The question is why does Japan allow these people in here in the first place.
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.
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.
Japanese people are racist? I’m shocked! 😂😂
I’m white passing (actually Argentinian but blonde and blue eyes). Never ever got stopped in ONE year and I was out and about all the time lol.
At the same time, a French acquaintance who happens to have Middle Eastern heritage, all the time…
White guy, nearly 25 years resident, stopped ONCE on the morning after one of the big terror attacks in France. Regularly see SE Asians getting stopped in my neighborhood. YTs not immune, but it’s definitely racial.