What practical purpose does a cartridge this small serve? Why

Small things fit the Japanese's needs

>>32280798
>thinly veiled "stopping power isn't just a meme" thread

>>32280798
Japan had a fondness for small junk even before the much needed radiation?

Cartridges that we consider anaemic these days were once popular military and self defense choices.

>>32280798
Who cares what a fucking nip does. Death to Japs.

It's like you aren't American.

>>32280809
Would Japan have won the war if they adopted .45 ACP? History may never know.

>>32280847
>8/7mm nambu existed at the same time that .45 and 9mm were widespread

>>32280847
Well yeah. After so many bullets we've adapted to the small shots and built up an immunity.

Why do you think it's recommended to shoot yourself with .22lr and slowly move up in size to build up an immunity to bullets?

>>32281367
so was .32 ACP

>>32280798
They're used to holding small things in their hands.
>nip nong rittr dong

>>32280798
because their penises are small

Japanese men used to be 5'0"

Arisaka rifles with a bayonet attached are longer than Japanese soliders were tall.

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>he thinks its small

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>>32280798
for shooting other asians in the dick

All of their guns were bizarre and fucked up during that time period, like they just figured out how to make guns and ammo. They had alright rifles through the Russo Japanese War and the designs took a nosedive.

>>32284207
The type 38 and 999 are excellent

>>32280798
>Why would the Japanese adopt something so small?

Before the introduction of the yankee, it was considered a perfectly adequate full sized cartridge, as the average chinese or korean was also quite small.

>>32284207
Wat. Their guns were just getting gud. Type 96 & 99 (which even ignoring the more powerful cartridge was a big improvement in reliability over the 96). Also, their infantry rifles have always been good. Also, other than the very limited usage of SMG's (only around 25,000 Type 100's were even made, and that was by far the most produced SMG the Japanese had. Contrast that with 1.1 million MP40's. Even STG44's, with their reputation as being too few and too late to do anything, numbered around 450,000 produced.) the 8mm Nambu was just used in pistols, AKA, things that don't really matter in a battle.

Really, the main problem with their infantry small arms that could be criticized was being remedied, namely their funky machine guns, like the Type 11. Pistol cartridges are such a small factor that exists in a category that already has relatively small influence on the overall war effort. If their pistols didn't exist at all, the war probably wouldn't have ended any faster. The big factors were things like proper convoys of their merchant marine, and more merchant marine period.

>>32283628
This would be awesome to shoot in my backyard

>>32280798
7.62x25 Tokarev is smaller in diameter and can fuck someones day up with her velocity than that shitty underpowered Nambu cartridge