Banzai charge or Banzai attack is the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming staged by infantry units. This term came from the Jap
Japanese woodcut print depicting an infantry charge in the Russo-Japanese War
The suicidal charge by the forces of Saigō Takamori at the culmination of the Satsuma Rebellion (1877) inspired the nation of Japan to idealize and romanticize death in battle and to consider suicide an honorable final action.
Japanese soldiers honor the Emperor with the shout "Banzai" during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938).
Dead Imperial Japanese Army soldiers on the sandbar of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal after being killed by U.S. Marines during the Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, diplomat, and commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for having been the commander of the J
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…remained, and after the war, they were captured by the Soviet forces and displayed at the Kubinka Tank Museum. Some Japanese commanders, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, forbade their men from carrying out banzai charges. Indeed, the Americans were surprised that the Japanese did not employ banzai charges at the Battle…
Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Tokyo 1907
Lieutenant Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi, an Olympic Gold Medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, who was killed in action on Iwo Jima