TOKYO, Dec 6 — The United States Embassy in Tokyo today warned in a tweet of incidents of suspected racial profiling of non-Japanese by Japanese police.
“The US Embassy has received reports of foreigners stopped and searched by Japanese police in suspected racial profiling incidents. Several were detained, questioned, and searched,” the tweet said.The tweet is an unusual move from the United States, a key Japanese ally. Asked about the US embassy warning, top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno said only that police question suspicious individuals based on various factors but that those decisions are not based on a person’s ethnicity or nationality.
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