For example, there was a video of two police men stopping a foreigner, they wanted to look in her bag, when she refused, they doubled down and said, “there’s something bad in your bag that you don’t want us to see right?” the woman then replied, “yes my underwear.” Embarrassed, they leave and let her go. In this case, was it legal?
Edit:
Since I’m being cooked in the comments here are sources to back up my question for those asking what “lately” means.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14770633
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/09/japan-sees-an-increase-in-racial-profiling-of-foreigners_6670946_4.html
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Many-people-with-foreign-roots-stopped-by-police-in-Japan-survey
Here is the link to the video as well https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FtlFmXCXyME
I used one video as an example of a case of police men demanding to search a bag so we could discuss what is and is not legal…
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