{"id":1028,"date":"2025-02-28T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:56:37","slug":"racial-profiling-lawsuit-5th-oral-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Racial profiling lawsuit 5th oral argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.jp\/entry\/story_jp_67bdc1fbe4b0d58740864490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Foreigners are 5.6 times more likely to have experience with job inquiries than Japanese people.&#8217;<\/a>&#8216; (2025\/02\/26 Huffington Post Japan Edition) is summarized in below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A survey has revealed that foreign nationals are 5.6 times more likely to be questioned by Japanese police than Japanese nationals. This survey was conducted by a private research company targeting 521 Japanese nationals and 422 foreign residents. While 12.8% of Japanese people had experienced job questioning, 71.1% of foreign residents had experienced it, and the experience rate was particularly high among people from South America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Job questioning is based on the Police Professionals Act, but in reality, questioning based solely on foreign-like appearance has become commonplace. The police place emphasis on questioning foreigners about their duties, and an internal Aichi Prefectural Police document even states that they can do anything against foreigners!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three foreign nationals who were subjected to such discriminatory job questioning have filed a lawsuit against the national government, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Aichi Prefecture, seeking compensation for damages. The plaintiffs claim that the questioning violates the Constitution and international treaties, and are seeking compensation of 3.3 million yen per person and a finding that the discriminatory practices are illegal. On the other hand, the defendant countered that the questioning was not based on his foreign roots and was not illegal. The next oral argument will be held on February 28, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CALL4 is looking for donations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lawsuit is introduced on CALL4, Japan&#8217;s first web platform specializing in &#8220;litigations aimed at resolving social issues (public litigation).&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.call4.jp\/search.php?type=action&amp;run=true&amp;items_id_PAL[]=match+comp&amp;items_id=I0000128&amp;calendar=true#A0001371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Lawsuit | #STOP Racial Profiling<\/a> is being filed as a case and donations are being solicited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-7-1024x728.png\" alt=\"Call 4\" class=\"wp-image-1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-7-1024x728.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-7-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-7-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-7.png 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The donations will be used to help solve social issues through litigation activities, so I made a small donation, but I will be watching the outcome of the court case closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan Immigration News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-grid columns-2 has-dates has-authors wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.unhcr.ca\/news\/refugees-in-yemen-trapped-between-conflict-displacement-and-dangerous-journeys\/'>Refugees in Yemen trapped between conflict, displacement and dangerous journeys<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-30T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-10-30<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by UNHCR<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/politics\/politics-government\/20261029-356089\/'>Tightened Requirement for Permanent Residency in Japan Creating Concern on Effects on Labor Shortages<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-29T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-10-29<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Japan News<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/news\/bangladesh\/news\/malaysia-bound-workers-may-leave-early-nov-4310326'>Malaysia-bound workers may leave from early Nov<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-29T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-10-29<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by The Daily Star<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/17001720'>Police: Wealthy Chinese pay $600,000 to gain Japanese visa<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-28T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-10-28<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by The Asahi Shimbun<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.openrightsgroup.org\/publications\/report-automated-discrimination-unpacking-the-digital-hostile-environment\/'>Report: Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-27T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-10-27<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Open Rights Group<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article, &#8220;Foreigners are 5.6 times more likely to have experience with job inquiries than Japanese people.&#8217;&#8216; (2025\/02\/26 Huffington Post Japan Edition) is summarized in below. CALL4 is looking for donations This lawsuit is introduced on CALL4, Japan&#8217;s first web platform specializing in &#8220;litigations aimed at resolving social issues (public litigation).&#8221; Lawsuit | #STOP Racial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Racial profiling lawsuit 5th oral argument&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coexistence","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}