Japan

Japan has more superhumans than anywhere else in Asia, and someone walking around in Tokyo might think there are even more there than in the United States. This is in part because of Japan’s unique nuclear history; the bombings that ended World War II are responsible for the birth of a high proportion of paranormals due to either direct exposure to radiation or because members of their family were exposed. In addition, the Japanese idoru culture, a trend of following celebrities with an almost religious, fanatic zeal, makes superhumans media darlings, so they seem to be everywhere. Superheroes who are “big in Japan” are omnipresent, with their faces on billboards and t-shirts, their symbols on everything from bumper stickers to underwear, and thick crowds of identically-dressed teens waiting at the airport every time they arrive.
Japan is also home to one of the largest populations of gadget-using heroes and villains in Asia, owing to the nation’s technological hegemony during the 20th century and cultural affinity for weird science. The nation also breeds a specialized super unique to the Land of the Rising Sun: the Fan Vigilante. These are usually lower-powered heroes who train and dress to imitate the actions of “real” superheroes they admire. Many of these vigilantes meet tragic ends, but a few learn and grow until they are true non-powered heroes in their own right ... with their own adoring fan base.

THE YAKUZA

Japan’s infamous underground crime syndicate has holdings and interests throughout the nation’s industry and government, with most of their income derived from legitimate interests bought with money from their illegal activities.
In recent years, UNISON has noticed the Yakuza are recruiting young people with powers. Their targets aren’t the splashy powerhouses and fighting types favored by gangsters in Europe and America. Instead, the Yakuza recruits those with subtle powers like computer control, telepathy, and telekinesis. They don’t want people who can wreck a building, but rather talents who can read thumb drives or decrypt financial records with the power of the mind.
So far, the Yakuza has yet to (visibly) deploy any of their new recruits. UNISON is observing the situation closely, and preparing for the crisis it might create. If necessary, they may have to respond with powered agents of their own, such as Delphi.

KAIJU ISLAND

Among the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula lies a barren stretch of mountainous land shrouded in fog about the size of Long Island. Enormous, brutal things rule this place: the kaiju. UNISON has been aware of the island since 1976, but expeditions mounted to clear it of these living natural catastrophes have always failed to eradicate them.
In 1983, an international task force began researching the option of nuking Kaiju Island, but the feasibility study team discovered something that both stopped the plan and gave them valuable insight into the island’s nature. Kaiju Island is a thin space between Earth-Prime and another world or dimension.
No matter how many kaiju are killed, and how many superhumans perish in the fight, new kaiju always appear through the gateway to their dimension. Because of this, UNISON has opted to sit back and observe rather than “deal with” the island. They keep a team ready at all times to intercept any kaiju wandering toward a population center, but don’t mount attacks on the island anymore. The risks simply outweigh the rewards.

ADVENTURES TO THE ISLAND

Even with UNISON keeping their hands off Kaiju Island, superhumans in the know occasionally visit. Gadgeteers and sorcerers investigate the thin space in search of arcane or technological secrets. Thrill-seekers visit for the challenge of facing off with one of these behemoths, and in the past year alone, UNISON has chased away two film crews seeking to record kaiju fighting one another.
Anybody visiting the island notices the gravity is different than normal (it’s about 0.75G) at the shoreline and continuing across the entire island. The effect of this is unnerving, and anyone who isn’t used to it suffers a -2 to all checks for the first 24 hours on the island.
The thin space linking the island to the kaiju dimension is not a single position, but rather a general effect spanning the entire land mass. The island appears to be beautiful, but at any moment a kaiju might drift into existence and start wandering the island, exploring, looking for a mate, or hunting. The extradimensional rift leading from the island to wherever the kaiju come from is weaker, but anybody wandering the island runs the risk of being pulled out of this reality. There is no record of anyone lost in this way ever returning.