00:00 I was riding a bicycle, so they stopped me at the very beginning of the conversation was like
00:06 that's not your bicycle, who's the real owner? You just stole it? That was the first
00:13 conversation from the police. So when the things happen that way, so I feel very, you know,
00:23 what did I say, offensive or like, I think that's something's wrong with the police that brings the
00:32 some kind of racist, you know, ideology to people like me. So at the first moment, they think I'm
00:42 the wrong criminal, maybe I stole it. I think things shouldn't be like that. After the changing
00:50 of Japan's situation, like many foreigners come in, many people who are born with different face,
00:56 but a Japanese citizen, or young children in school, there are many population of the foreigners
01:04 roots. So I think right now is the right moment to change for a good place. Over the years,
01:12 it has just accumulated many, many, many, many times with me, regardless if I'm driving or walking,
01:19 taking a train, riding my bicycle, it's just uncountable because there's no way
01:25 a police guy knows that this person has already been checked. Within me, it's very sad how a
01:31 country which is so modern in everything can be so cruel in the way they approach people who are
01:38 non-Japanese. There is no such system that the person, a civilian like me can always feel protected
01:45 and feel free to walk around because you don't know at any corner you can be stopped.
01:50 Eventually, I felt myself as part of social withdrawal. I never knew what social withdrawal
01:56 was until recently, which is hikikomori in Japanese, that I feel like every time I finish
02:01 work, I'm hiding in my house. And Tokyo is one of the greatest cities where people want to go,
02:07 but I don't want to go out. And I always tell myself, why can't I? And the reason is just
02:11 because I don't want to face another police. So nine out of ten times I know they will find a way
02:18 to stop. Being different is not wrong. It is not necessarily better. It's just different. So for
02:26 someone like me who is an immigrant and also part of the diaspora, I want people to know that just
02:33 because you are the nail that sticks up, that you don't necessarily have to be hammered down
02:39 without a fight. This is an everyday occurrence. It's an everyday thing. And that we have to do
02:43 something to prevent that for the future generations that are going to helpfully
02:49 keep this country going in the next two to three generations. So this is the first case about the
02:58 racial profiling. So it's about police questioning, racially discriminatory questioning.
03:09 It's very difficult for foreigners to sue against the government because they are worried about
03:16 their visa status. They are worried about being targeted by the police. So
03:20 actually it took two years to find a plaintiff for this lawsuit.
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