Bo says on 3/Jan/12
In his official Japanese web site Kane is listed as 6 ft Rob.
Just click on his English profile and you will see by yourself.
Where's these two different height comes from:
- Kane has been raised in the US and gave them his height in imperial system: 6 ft.
- 6ft doesn't mean a thing to most Japaneses folk because they switched from their own system to metric system a while ago.
- Not knowing about imperial system they probably tried to convert it using their own ancient knowledge: 1 ken comes to approximately 1.8m. One shaku is one sixth of 1 ken or about 30.3cm
By assuming one shaku is about one foot, they did get 181.8 cm and round it down to 181 cm.
- Then everyone discovering Kane's height on his official website converted successfully those 181 cm to 5ft11 1/4 in Imperial system.
That how his height of 6 ft/183.5 cm became an official height of 181 cm/ 5ft11.25 all over the web.
[Editor Rob: I can see how the conversion could have been screwed up, I will put him at his own 6ft/175lbs claim on his resume.]