AbstractA motional Stark effect polarimeter with five viewing points has been installed to obtain current profiles in the JT-60U tokamak. Offset angles caused by Faraday rotation were calibrated by rapidly moving a plasma, keeping the q profile unchanged. Polarized background light was observed and its effect was corrected by detecting the light which had a wavelength close to that of the beam emission. Current profiles in a current rampdown discharge were measured, and the q value at the inversion radius of the sawtooth oscillation agreed with the theoretical value (unity) within 10%.