Around 60 percent of more than 2,000 people with foreign roots surveyed earlier this year by the Tokyo Bar Association have been questioned by Japanese police over the past five years, with encounters more frequent among those of African or Latin American backgrounds, a recently released report showed. "Guidelines need to be established to end discrimination based on how one looks," the Tokyo organization said in the report on racial profiling. Based on the survey results, the group plans to submit a written opinion to related ministries and urge them to take action. It received valid answers from 2,094 people mainly via an online survey that was conducted between January and February this year. The survey was carried out after the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo in December tweeted about multiple incidents of suspected racial profiling by Japanese police.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 18, 2022 08:43 UTC