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"Moats in Other Parts of the World" mentions only the Mississippian culture. Someone familiar with East Asian military history should add something about Asian moats. At a minimum, there are moats in Japan (in the middle of Tokyo, no less), China (including in the middle of Beijing), and Thailand. -- Securiger 07:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Japan has moats out the wazoo. Someone, please feel free to read and organize some thoughts on that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_castle theanphibian 03:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

moats rock my sox

[edit] Flying Bridge

Flying bridge currently links to something about ships, I'm going to poke around for a few minutes and see if I can find something else to link it two, and if I don't find anything, I'll remove mention of it for now. --Talroth 01:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japan Moats

I just added the Japan part. It probably has holes all over it, so please edit me! But let me stress that I did not pull any of this out of nowhere. I noticed that the Japanese moat page had a completely independently developed page with basically information pertinent only to the Japanese moats. The entire part about the middle age moats not having water for instance, that's my best translation from the Japanese moat page. And the Japanese word for moat apparently does not require that there be water in it. I thought that was interesting.

I thought this was pretty vital actually. Japanese castles actually have moats on a scale way beyond other parts of the world. But as the Japanese_castle article points out, very few have ever actually sustained attack. I see it more as a part of the engineered Japanese city.

The pics I added are just repeats from other articles. I thought they added some good flavor. Particularly the imperial palace map, that's just CRAZY!

I noticed that other languages had articles developed fairly independently as well (the rest are obvious translations), but I've only studied Japanese, so I can't help there.

The entire "See Also" section, I basically copied from the Russian version btw. Please add on as your imagination hits you.

I'll leave the stub status for now, but I think we should reconsider arrangement and the stubness soon. theanphibian 03:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)