Traditional Japanese Samurai (pics included)

yep, Japanese called themselves Wa.  Which the others give it the Kanji that means short.

It wasn't until later that Japanese realized that it is kind of an insult.  So they change the Kanji from �� to �M.

Hey, one of those probably was Kenshin....

And... the last guy looks like a Japanese monk.

I suggest you go to Tokyo subway, walk around, and tell me they are still short.

If you want to single out North China, maybe Japan can also single out their tallest population.

South Coreans I don't know, cause I haven't met that many south Coreans taller than me.  But then again, I've only met South Coreans from the US.

BTW, I don't think you know about how tall Nothern Chinese are, and you don't know how much number is that,but most of them are very tall at least like 168cm. Their population is about 700millions. Southern Chinese also is niot that short compare to Japanese, they are almost are same height.(except for Cantonese) You live in Taiwan so you do not know much informations about China.

There's a Japanese street here in where I live, and most Japanese comes up to my chest as their height (I'm 172cm). 

There's also a real Samurai armor display at some Japanese store(Really amazing), and I think the armor fits up a guy around 150cm.

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Well, other than height, I would like to point out the dressing of these Samurais.  LOok at picture 3.  The hat of each samurai.  It's not directly cone shaped, but gradually slanted towards the shape.  Also, their shoes.  It tells us how the normal samurai clothing was in times of peace.  Must have been really damn in Japan at that time.