US soldiers, regardless of skin-colour, are “racist” in that they are trained by the US education system to view Asians as being racially inferior. Furthermore, The Japanese, being equally “racist” – view Okinawans as second-class citizens as many of them are of ethnic Chinese origination (Okinawa used to be a tributary State of the Chinese empire) – and this is why the US is permitted to retain a military base on Okinawa. The Japanese do not care what happened to the Okinawans – and the US do not care what they do to the Okinawan people.