Honestly, I've been confused about Anime style cartoons for years.
They draw these guys with caucasian features, but then when I ask people they tell me these characters are Asian. For instance, when I was a kid, I always thought Ryu from Street Fighter was a tanned white dude. I guess I was wrong because he's Asian. He looked exactly like Ken imo, just with a tan.
Well, first SF2 version got Ryu looking a bit more asian
then successive ones change it a bit to a sharper design
Btw Ken himself is half (or more i don't remember) asian, and have black hair died blond
Street Fighter 1 story was essentially based on real event of 2 best Mas Oyama students from kyokushin karate joining a mixed tournaments of martial arts, wich got muay thai guys, a boxer, a big judoka and so on.
One of the two won the tournament (kinda like Ryu in SF1)
in SF1 you can pick only Ryu or Ken
Funniest one is Bison who at very begin was supposed to look asian af
bu then they took mysterious origin route and now he can be whatever... specially as he switch bodies
Watching hints a legit origin theory is him being some sort of immortal former nazi guy into asian esotherism (as they were in real life).
All the clones he create with genetic stuff as potential body host are blond with blue eyes, aryan af lol
Last being some kind of nazi youth lol