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Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle
The Japanese people I meet must be really tall then....most of them are my height (~174cm)...
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Are the Japanese you know male or female? Remember, characters like Mio aren't just short because they're Japanese, but also because they're girls - females in Canada, the US, the UK, and Japan all average about 5 and a half inches less than males.
So if your friends are guys, they aren't actually that tall... the average height for a 19 year old Japanese male in 2006 was 171.5 cm. For comparison, the average 19 year old Japanese female in 2006 was 158cm.