Japan is famous for its culture of politeness and respect, however, a whistleblower in the country’s police has claimed that officers had received orders to “crackdown on foreigners” and “judge them on their appearance alone”.

Left-leaning Japanese publication Mainichi reported that an unnamed police source said he was told to “target foreigners for questioning and checking their residence cards”.

The officer added: “There was a ‘month of repression of foreigners’ during which we had to redouble our efforts to check cards, but also [to] search them for drugs or knives.”

The order is reported to have come from the country’s Criminal Investigation Division, which was trying to find undocumented migrants.

To make matters worse, the officer…