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05 Mar, 2024
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It’s not that there is anything bad about your hair, the police officer politely explained to the young Black man as commuters streamed past in Tokyo Station. It’s just that, based on his experience, people with dreadlocks were more likely to possess drugs (sở hữu ma túy).
Racial profiling is emerging as a flashpoint (điểm sáng) in Japan as increasing numbers of migrant workers, foreign residents and mixed-race Japanese change the country’s traditionally homogenous society and test deep-seated suspicion toward outsiders.
With one of the world’s oldest populations and a stubbornly low birthrate (tỷ lệ sinh thấp dai dẳng), Japan has been forced to rethink its restrictive immigration policies. And as record numbers of migrant workers (lao động nhập cư) arrive in the country, many of the people tidying up hotel rooms, working the register at convenience stores (cửa hàng tiện lợi) or flipping burgers are from places like Vietnam, Indonesia or Sri Lanka.
But Japan’s foreign-born residents say social attitudes toward them have been slow to adjust. In January, three of them sued the Japanese government and the local governments in Tokyo and Aichi, a nearby prefecture, over the conduct of their police forces. The plaintiffs said they had been regularly subjected to random stops and searches because of their racial appearance.
The lawsuit, which seeks monetary damages (thiệt hại về tiền tệ) of about $22,000 for each plaintiff and a court ruling confirming that racially discriminatory police questioning was against Japanese law, said that some internal police guidelines explicitly encourage profiling (hướng dẫn của cảnh sát nội bộ khuyến khích rõ ràng việc lập hồ sơ). As an example, it cited a 2021 police training manual from Aichi that encouraged officers to use laws on drugs, firearms or immigration to stop and question foreigners.
Such encounters can be particularly jarring for the small but growing number of Japanese nationals, including Mr. Omotegawa, who are of mixed race or have been naturalized.
source: nytimes,
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