Interesting thread; I just finished re-reading articles reviewing these guns, (no personal experience); the Nambu was described as a quality weapon that was nice to shoot with an anaemic cartridge. The type 14 pleasantly surprised the reviewer, nothwithstanding the points mentioned above, and was described as ergonomically satisfying.
I'm glad various countries had their own oddball designs; without them collecting would be very dull. Variety, (in design and operating mechanism), is what keeps me buying....
If every pistol was a 1911 the gun world would be a very dull place <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />