Re: [HIST] Japanese Culture shock

At 10:09 PM +0200 6/23/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>
>And as to fighting with blades against firearms - size isn't of much
>relevance there either ;-)
>And the Japanese used firearms to good effect and in massive numbers in
the
>16th-17th  century

But the point is that the Japanese culture disposed of the use of 
firearms in war fair. There is a very good book about this called 
Giving up the Gun by Noel Perrin. Ostensibly this was done as a 
method of making it harder for upstart warlords to raise effective 
fighting forces. There were similar kinds of aversions to crossbows 
and firearms in Europe as well, but none of those movement's worked 
out.
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