I believe his kind of thinking is due to WW2 and of the many Japanese that made it to better jobs. Even today, I hear it's still about the Japanese in the Public Edumacation system. Even the new head of the DOE has a Japanese last name but she doesn't look Japanese to me, who knows maybe she married a Japanese guy(Yikes! or gal). Somehow the Japanese still comes out on top in Hawaii doing a good or bad job of it. 
No Hawaiians on the DOE list. but again who knows if some are not part Hawaiian. hmmm, HaiLama should give the ACLU a call and claim the Japanese stole his Haw'n Lands and the StateofHawaii/DOE hiring practices.
Man, if Japan won WW2, he'd have a case living in Hawaii under Japan's rule.