From what I've come up with so far, I'd say Chinese ranks are most appropriate. The Japanese reorganized the warlord armies, but--so far--nothing I've read indicates that they (necessarily) forced IJA rank structure.
The Syrian name list from MBT was put in as a placeholder and then I moved on to other issues and forgot to put the proper Chinese names and ranks in place.
Make a copy of Ldr21.dat ( found under \Game Data\Names ) someplace then rename it Ldr03.dat and put it back into \Game Data\Names then go to \Game Data\Ranks and copy Rnk21.dat somplace then rename it Rnk03.dat and put it back into \Game Data\Ranks and everything will be as it should be until we issue a proper patch.
Good catch. Nobody else noticed it for months
Don
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