Re: [ORE] [Godlike] If the Japanese have so many fewer Talents...

This is my take as well. There are plenty of Japanese Talents manifesting all over the Pacific Theater, but the few that survive get labeled as Gaki, or monsters. The multitude that die gloriously in battle following manifestation are seen as Nikudan ("human bullets") or Gun-shin ("War Gods"), patriotic heroes empowered by kokutai (national spirit) to achieve great acts and turn back the West and its inhuman Talent monstrosities. There are also Goldberg Scientists that the Japanese military may not even recognize as Talents. And while the Japanese may not (openly) organize native-born Talents into units, they could do so among other populations of occupied and allied nations (Korea, China, Indochina, Indonesia, etc).

The flipside of this is the assumption that the Marines use their Talents as effectively as the Army does in the ETO. Considering the massive waste of life for not-always clear objectives in the island-hopping campaign, it's very possible that Marine SIS squads are ineffectually deployed in battle by the kind of generals that look at a flamethrower and wonder where the bayonet lug is.
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