During World War II, people liked to call American soldiers "American soldiers" and Japanese soldiers "Little Japan". American soldiers are called because americans are tall, and Japanese people are called small Japan because many Japanese people are short in stature. So, how high were the Japanese soldiers in World War II? The truth is unbelievable, the Japanese army was 1 meter 5 tall in World War II, is it true? As long as you can reach 1 meter 6, you are a first class soldier!
Anti-Japanese war veterans once recalled that most of the Japanese they had seen were under 160 centimeters tall. Some veterans also mentioned that on the eve of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Invading Japanese Army had high myopia and even mild intellectually retarded soldiers. According to historical materials published by Japanese researchers in recent years. When the All-Out War of Resistance broke out in 1937, most Japanese soldiers were between 150 and 160 centimeters tall.
The first class of soldiers is the best soldier in Japan, and it is also the tallest, as long as it can reach 1 meter 6 and has no physical disability, it will be reused in the army. And for those below 1 meter 6, or less than 1 meter 5, they will be divided into different classes according to different heights. But don't look at the Japanese devils, although the average height is lower than that of China, but the explosive power they showed, because before World War II they have always advocated the spirit of Bushido, in the war is not afraid of death, can not move to fight bayonets, plus small, more flexible, and fight without life, in the Second World War, occupied a lot of Asian countries.
On the other hand, our army, although it still has a certain advantage over the Japanese army in terms of numbers and size, but the physical quality of the soldiers is relatively low, sometimes even eating is a problem, long-term malnutrition, so that even if the soldier is tall, there is no strength, let alone how strong, coupled with the inferiority of equipment, when encountering the Japanese army on the battlefield, it is always unable to take advantage, it is not too strange.