You’re confusing Americans with Japan. Also the internet.

I am pretty sure the Asian people who are actually annoyed by the GITS casting are Asian American. One of the big problems with whitewashing (we can get into a debate about whether GITS is whitewashing somewhere else) is that there are plenty of qualified Asian American actors who would be great in the roles but the…

Most Japanese don’t even know what whitewashing *is.* It’s a virulently American offended-on-behalf-of-other-people phenomenon.

Japan was never complaining, they were applauding it. it was white Americans that were complaining about GITS.