Ok guys, here's a throwaway as it's something that's just happened and I need to get more opinions on about how worried I should be.
So I'm a exchange student here, and have been here for roughly 9 months now. I'm walking home after a night out at toriki with my girlfriend and good friend and see that my dormmates are meeting under the local bridge for some drinks. I think "sure I'll go for one", and head there with a single canned lemon sour. After less than 10 minutes of being there, the police show up, and inconveniently, I'm the only one who speaks enough Japanese to converse with them.
From what I could understand, they mentioned that they had a noise complaint and wanted to see our residence (zairyu) cards, and only two of us had them so we handed them over, and they asked to take photos, of course I wasn't going to argue, so let them go ahead and do so. I tried explaining that I hope to live in Japan and if this would cause an issue in my very limited Japanese (私の願いは日本に住んでいます。今は問題ですか) and they responded by doing the big X with their hands, saying 問題ない and smiling.
I also explained that I'd only been there 10 minutes and wasn't loud at all, yet was the only one who spoke Japanese.
I'm ready to defend myself by asking to show CCTV of me showing up literally 10 minutes before they arrive if necessary but still, I'm really worried. I was wondering if anyone had experienced anything similar, and if I should even be worrying in the first place. From what I could understand, they just said it was general procedure.
Please let me know if any of you have experienced anything similar, and if I should be worried at all.
Thank you
by dojimanoryu1968