Japan’s top government spokesman refuted claims by the U.S. embassy in Tokyo that Japanese police are stopping foreigners in “suspected racial profiling incidents,” saying that police don’t interrogate suspicious individuals based on nationality or race. The American Citizen Services section of the U.S. embassy posted an alert to U.S. citizens on Twitter on Dec. 6 saying that it had been receiving reports claiming that some foreigners were being “detained, questioned, and searched” by Japanese police in “suspected racial profiling incidents.” It warned U.S. citizens to “carry proof of immigration and request consular notification if detained.” The alert was not posted on the embassy’s website among its other alerts. The latest alert there was published on Dec. 3 about the need for COVID-19 testing to travel to the United States. Commenting on the U.S. embassy’s Twitter alert, Japanese top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that if police felt the need to stop suspects …