The Tokyo Bar Association will start looking into the circumstances under which people with foreign roots have been stopped and questioned by Japanese police following allegations of racial profiling, a lawyer belonging to the group said Monday."We have good reasons to believe that police officers frequently racially profile people of foreign origin," Junko Hayashi said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. "We need more solid data regarding this issue." The survey will begin Jan. 11.Earlier this month, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said on its official Twitter account that it had recei…READ FULL ARTICLE
