Ekal comments

I'm grateful to them. I hope they get a win and it resonates a little within the Police. In 17 years I must have been checked over 15 times and I can clearly see a pattern: I'm white and every time I've been checked is when I was speaking Spanish or Portuguese on the street. Walk around Roppongi being white speaking English? No problem. Do the same thing speaking Portuguese? They'll stop me and demand to check the content of my bag and even wallet! I've also had the experience of being checked 3 times in the same day. I want to think they were looking for someone specific and it was not just some directive to check all foreigners in the district.

At the end of the day, I've learned my rights. As someone commented Japan is about the law, and yes we do have rights in this type of situation. Now, when they come and check me for no reason, they can be sure they'll get a monologue about it.