I thought it should be noted, the writer of this article (also a former professor of mine), if you talk about race or ethnicity, is pretty much a anti-american/japanese nationalist.
You may or may not know what its like to sit through class after class listening to a lunatic whose grip on reality is gone, but who insists on bashing American, and in comparision, praising Japan, like it was a nation of the 2nd coming of jesus.
He does play the race card, but in the most dishonest way, long story short, anything you can say about McKinley, you could say about FDR, but watch him explode if you do so.
To him, America is bad, and Japan is great, and we are will suffer, and they (are)will thrive.