Tweet of the Week #49: Racial Profiling For ID Check Has Twitter Fuming blog.gaijinpot.com

That’s in part thanks to the approximately 6,000 24-hour-staffed police boxes that cover the country in a network of uniformed protection.
Japanese law allows patrolling officers to stop a random person at any time to check their ID.
Japanese nationals don’t have an ID card and they have no reason to carry their passport on them day-to-day either.
But incidents like the one @zainulabaden experienced suggests that some Japanese people might have to—just to be safe.
Time to learn how to use the suffix 方 （ かた which expresses “the way (manner) to (perform an action)” or “how to (perform an action)”.