Some Japanese won’t care because they don’t see how it affects them directly, if they live in Japan. It’s just some cheesy music video to them. If you asked random people in the US about offensively racist music videos, you’d also get a wide swathe of opinions.

Imagine this.

You are a US citizen. A Japanese person living in the US says they have an important question to ask you. Their English isn’t so great, but you get the gist of their question. They want you to look at a Japanese music video sung in broken English and tell them if it’s racist or not. You watch the video, sense it’s in poor taste, but since you don’t know much about Japanese pop music, you don’t really have the cultural context to make a judgement on it. As you stare at contorting figures on the screen, confused, nauseous and ill at ease, the Japanese person is getting red in the face and upset… and you have a feeling that if you say “no,” they’ll go away.

What do you tell them?