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Many people with foreign roots stopped by police in Japan: survey

Lawyers call out 'racial profiling,' lack of officers' human rights education

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Foreigners walk among the crowd at a crossing in Tokyo's Shibuya district in August 2021. © Reuters

SAYUMI TAKE, Nikkei staff writer
September 15, 2022 13:54 JST

TOKYO -- Many people of foreign heritage in Japan have been subject to racial profiling by police because of their appearance and unconscious racial discrimination on the part of officers, according to a new survey by a group of Tokyo-based lawyers.

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