Pro Tip: When visiting Japan, dress and comport yourself so you don't look like you should be thrown in jail, and it will happen a lot less often.

As a Mexican friend puts it for Mexico: Dress as the police should believe you.

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rationalist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's the advice I give to anyone traveling internationally. You get treated a lot differently when you wear khaki slacks and an Oxford shirt (more professional rather than stylish) - even if you're wearing sneakers.

The more bland the colors, the more you blend in and easier it is to flow through places.

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g-b-r 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder if that's possible in Japan for a black person

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kstenerud an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The Japanese like Africans, placing them only slightly lower than Europeans. Basically if you're not dressed like a thug and don't have certain tattoos, and aren't Brazilian, Korean or Chinese, you'll usually be treated pretty nicely.

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perching_aix 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd assume so, though I'm not aware of any statistics that'd catalogue police action there by skin color / ethnicity, not official, not third party.

I'd think a formal or business casual attire, with proper grooming, is a rather international signal that you're vaguely alright in your ways.

Anything specific you reckon otherwise for?

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kelnos 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The author of the article is a black woman, so... maybe not.

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eowln 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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samrus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or dont go to an authoritarian state where something like this is accepted. Im astounded at people defending this. If it was china people would see this is messed up