Banzai charge
A Banzai charge (or "banzai attack") (萬歳突撃) was a tactic used by Japanese soldiers against the American soldiers when they were losing World War II. Banzai charges were usually suicide charges. This was so they would have an honourable death without surrender. Also, the charges were a final attempt to gain success against the Allied forces, which usually had more troops.
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The charge of Saigō Takamori inspired the government that the charge was their final, honorable 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.
