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A story I am writing is sort of a tribute to a long running Japanese superhero series.

So I made the main character in it physically Japanese.

But only 2 of the main characters are Japanese in nationality. And the one I speak of isn't one of the 2.

She's American. Her parents were a couple of Japanese-Americans who gave her up to adoption. She was thus raised by white parents. They named her after her birth mother and tried to teach her about Japanese history and culture but very little sank in because they themselves did not live in a Japanese manner.

So while she knows a lot about Japan and it's language she is written in a very WHITE manner. She even considers herself simply American.

My inspiration in doing this is a short film about a Chinese man who immigrates to America to find out his boss is Chinese in heritage, but she turns out to have been adopted and raised by Jews, so she considers herself Jewish.

My reasoning is that I am not Japanese so I could not write a Japanese protagonist well, but it would just be weird to make the leader of a Japanese-inspired superhero team white and/or not Japanese in even the tiniest way.

Would Japanese and/or Asian Americans find such a protagonist bothersome?