Before the internet, you could've gotten away with naming or depicting Japanese characters however you wanted; nowadays, there really isn't much of an excuse.

 
I mean, look at Psylocke...  her name is Kwannon... or it'd be Kannon in Japanese (観音様) which is the name of a buddhist deity.  Buddhism isn't a large religion out here... and of course, you'd never have anyone named after a buddhist deity.
 
Wolverine's son, Daken (駄犬)... mangy mutt.  I really don't hear that phrase thrown around at all here, but who knows... his origin and the name came from WWII era. 
 
Mariko Yashida.... Yashida??? Not a name. 
 
Aside from awkward names, almost every single Japanese female character are drawn to look like little Vietnamese girls.  Why?   
 
It'd be pretty easy to to just grab a magazine, or research it online and use current day models and actresses as a reference for these characters.   
 
Speaking of which, who would you like these characters to look like. 
 

 Daken - Joy... half Japanese half white TV/magazine personality: 
 
 
 
 

Armor - Ueto Aya....   Actress/singer 
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Surge - Tsuchiya Anna... singer/actress 
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Psylocke - Kuroki Meisa....   Actress 
[img]http://i46.tinypic.com/ouqwlf.jpg[/img]       
 

 
 
 
Your thoughts?  :)

Are you complaining about the fact that there are various Asian X-men?

I feel your pain. Obviously most of the comic artists and writers in America are Caucasian men, and Japanese women are not an abundant source of reference for them. Honestly though, I couldn't tell the difference between a Vietnamese girl and a Japanese girl if they were side by side. Not saying they all look a like, but still all the same I couldn't. Maybe if I had a frame of reference, but here in eastern NC there aren't many Asian people. I think they make up less than 2% of the population. Still most of the Japanese characters in the X-World look like White characters with tiny eyes. 

No, not at all...   
 
I mean, if I were, I could talk about Karma, Jubilee, etc... 
 
I'm just talking about the fact that I feel like they've half-assed the Japanese characters. 

Like with Psylocke, she's named after a Buddhist deity...  there aren't many buddhist here in Japan, and I'm sure if you asked anyone about Kannon out here, they'd have no clue who it is. 
 
With Daken, he's refered to as "Mangy Mutt"...  I'll always think of that laughing dog when I see his name: 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Aside from that naming issues (a lot of ollllld fashioned names, so randomly made-up names, etc), characters just aren't drawn like they're Japanese.  I gave some references on how I'd prefer some of the characters to look and I'm hoping others will do the same.

How would you draw Japanese characters though? Oddly enough I've always felt that Japanese artists seem to make their characters look too Caucasian. You see this particularly in Japanese anime. (i.e. Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, etc.) Technically if I didn't know the characters were supposed to be Japanese I'd think they were Caucasian. The pics posted are of big name celebrities, but do they really represent Japanese people in general or the do they represent the Japanese vision of what it means to be beautiful?  I want to note that I was actually surprised when they cast Jubalee as an asian person in the movie X-Men The Last Stand because I always thought she was Caucasian. Perhaps Marvel is simply adhering to the precedent that Japanese artists have established. 

I don't get this?

" Well the problem is no one knows how to draw japanese people. Not even japanese people can draw japanese people. I mean have you seen manga? Its pretty sad."

The woman who's name is Kwannon who's stuck in Betsy Braddock's body, when I heard the name, it doesn't sound japanese at all so I thought "maybe Kokoro should be an appropriate name for her".

" The woman who's name is Kwannon who's stuck in Betsy Braddock's body, when I heard the name, it doesn't sound japanese at all so I thought "maybe Kokoro should be an appropriate name for her". "

What about Sunfire, no one has seem to name him. When I think of japanese and X-Men, Shiro comes instantly to my mind.

Isn't Psylocke Betsy Bradrock?

" @Gylan Thomas:  Revanche
 
.@eldestrisk:  Well Shiro Yoshida seems to be a plausable name, maybe that where they get the idea of Mariko surname Yoshida-Yashida kind of similar. "