U.S. Embassy & Consulates
in Japan

We can: 

• Provide you a list of local attorneys;
• Contact your family, friends, or employers with your written permission;
• Visit you regularly and provide reading materials, personal items, and vitamin supplements, where appropriate and permitted;
• Help to ensure that officials are providing you appropriate medical care;
• Inform you of local and U.S.-based resources available to detainees;
• Request that officials permit you visits, including with a member of the clergy of the religion of your choice; and
• Help facilitate family and friends in sending you money.

We cannot: 

• Get you out of jail;
• State to a court that you are guilty or innocent;
• Provide you with legal advice or represent you in court;
• Serve as your official interpreters or translators;
• Pay your legal, medical, or other fees.