Editing Racial profiling (section)

===Japan===
In December 2021, the [[Embassy of the United States, Tokyo|U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan]] warned of "suspected racial profiling" by police across Japan against non-Japanese residents.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-embassy-tokyo-warns-suspected-racial-profiling-by-japanese-police-2021-12-06/ |title=U.S. embassy in Tokyo warns of 'suspected racial profiling' by Japanese police |first1=Chang-Ran |last1=Kim |first2=Elaine |last2=Lies |publisher=Reuters |date=6 December 2021 |accessdate=4 April 2025}}</ref> Since 2022, the number of people coming forward about racial profiling complaints against police officers in Japan has greatly expanded.<ref name="tokoypoliceinvestigation" /> In January 2024, three foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit which alleged they were repeatedly questioned by police based on their physical appearances, with one plaintiff, Pakistan-born Syed Zain, claiming that he was harassed by police at least 70 times since arriving in Japan in 2002.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68137532 |title=Japan: Foreign-born residents sue government for alleged racial profiling |first=Kelly |last=Ng |publisher=BBC News |date=29 January 2024 |accessdate=4 April 2025}}</ref> On 30 April 2024, an article was published by the ''[[The Mainichi]]'' which provided some detail how an investigation found that numerous Japanese police officers had a high rate of racial profiling incidents which involved the targeting of foreigners.<ref name="tokoypoliceinvestigation">{{cite news |url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240427/p2a/00m/0na/019000c |title='We were told to target foreigners': Ex-officer on systematic racial profiling by Japan police |publisher=The Mainichi |date=30 April 2024 |accessdate=4 April 2025}}</ref> One former officer inspector from a west Japan prefecture which saw police consistently being ordered by senior officers target foreigners for questioning, ID checks and searches even claimed to the newspaper that "we were told to target foreigners."<ref name="tokoypoliceinvestigation" /> People with Korean, black and Southeast Asian roots were among those most frequently targeted, with white people being less targeted and often being considered by police to be either "tourists" or having "a Japanese partner."<ref name="tokoypoliceinvestigation" /> On May 8, 2022, the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that racial profiling was "prevalent" in Japan, but not often documented.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/world/asia/japan-police-racial-profiling-tokyo.html |title=Racial Profiling in Japan is Prevalent but Unseen |publisher=New York Times |date=8 May 2025 |accessdate=4 April 2025}}</ref>