Foreigners in Japan should not expect to have the same human rights protections here as Japanese, 21.8 percent of respondents in a fiscal 2002 survey said.

It was the highest figure since 1988, when the government first included the question in its human rights survey.

The fiscal 2002 report on domestic human rights conditions, which polled 2,059 Japanese respondents aged 20 or older nationwide, was released Tuesday and will be submitted to the current Diet session. It was jointly compiled by the Justice and education ministries.