Justice ministry in Japan will ask foreigners and tourists about their experiences of discrimination in unprecedented survey.
Justice ministry in Japan will conduct first racism survey and ask 18,500 foreign residents aged over 18 to describe their experiences of being discriminated.
The number of foreign residents in Japan stands at 2% of the population with 2.3 million.
International pressure on Japan to take racism more seriously has grown amid a rise in reports of hate speech in the past three years, mostly targeting members of its large ethnic Korean population. The Guardian reported.
Many of the 400,000 Korean residents who have not taken Japanese citizenship are the descendants of people who were brought over as forced labourers during Japans 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
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