70% of foreign nationals surveyed stopped by police.

A survey revealed that 70% of foreign nationals in Japan face police questioning, significantly more than Japanese citizens.

Man, did you hear about this? 70% of foreign nationals in Japan have faced police questioning in the last five years. That’s almost six times more than what Japanese folks experience! A survey dropped by lawyers in a racial profiling case just revealed this shocking truth.

This is the first time anyone's actually compared how often foreign nationals get questioned versus Japanese citizens. Lawyer Motoki Taniguchi is pushing this info into court as evidence in a case where a foreign-born naturalized citizen and two foreign residents are claiming they were racially profiled by the police and the government. Crazy, right?

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