FILE PHOTO: Police officers stand guard near the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, as U.S. President Donald Trump visits Japan, November 5, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States Embassy in Tokyo on Monday warned in a tweet of incidents of suspected racial profiling of non-Japanese by Japanese police.
Japan is a mostly ethnically homogeneous country where some people equate more immigrants with a rise in crime, although foreign labour is increasingly needed to make up for a declining and ageing population.
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