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Banzai charge or Banzai attack (Japanese: バンザイ突撃 or 万歳突撃, romanized: banzai totsugeki) 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 Japanese battle cry tennōheika banzai (天皇陛下万歳, transl. "long live His Majesty the Emperor"), and was shortened to banzai, specifically referring to the tactic used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War. This tactic was used when the Japanese commanders of infantry battalions foresaw that a battle was about to be lost, as a last ditch effort in thwarting Allied forces.
Origin
The banzai charge is considered to be one method of gyokusai (玉砕, "shattered jewel"; honorable suicide), a suicide attack, or suicide before being captured by the enemy such as seppuku. The origin of the term is a classical Chinese phrase in the 7th-century Book of Northern Qi, which states "丈夫玉碎恥甎全", "A true man would [rather] be the shattered jewel, ashamed to be the intact tile." Among the rules there existed a code of honor that was later used by Japanese military governments.
With the revolutionary change in the Meiji Restoration and frequent wars against China and Russia, the militarist government of Japan adopted the concepts of Bushido to condition the country's population to be ideologically obedient to the emperor. Impressed with how samurais were trained to commit suicide when a great humiliation was about to befall them, the government taught troops that it was a greater humiliation to surrender to the enemy than to die. The suicidal charge by the forces of Saigō Takamori at the culmination of the Satsuma Rebellion also inspired the nation to idealize and romanticize death in battle and to consider suicide an honorable final action.
During the Siege of Port Arthur human wave attacks were conducted on Russian artillery and machine guns by the Japanese which ended up becoming suicidal. Since the Japanese suffered massive casualties in the attacks, one description of the aftermath was that "[a] thick, unbroken mass of corpses covered the cold earth like a coverlet".
In the 1930s, the Japanese found this type of attack to be effective in China. It became an accepted military tactic in the Imperial Japanese Army, where numerically weaker Japanese forces, using their superior training and bayonets, were able to defeat larger Chinese forces. Due to the low standardisation of Chinese equipment in the National Revolutionary Army, the Japanese here seldom faced massed automatic weapons and more frequently encountered Chinese units armed only with bolt-action rifles, which could not fire as rapidly as a machine gun.
World War II
During the war period, the Japanese militarist government disseminated propaganda that romanticized suicide attacks, using one of the virtues of Bushido as the basis for the campaign. The Japanese government presented war as purifying, with death defined as a duty. By the end of 1944, the government announced the last protocol, unofficially named ichioku gyokusai (一億玉砕, literally "100 million shattered jewels"), implying the will of sacrificing the entire Japanese population of 100 million, if necessary, for the purpose of resisting opposition forces.
It was used extensively by the Japanese in China, especially against Chinese soldiers without machine guns or automatic weapons, though it was ineffective against those who had machine guns and more entrenched Chinese units.
During the U.S. raid on Makin Island, on August 17, 1942, the U.S. Marine Raiders attacking the island initially spotted and then killed Japanese machine gunners. The Japanese defenders then launched a banzai charge with bayonets and swords, but were stopped by American firepower. The pattern was repeated in further attacks, with similar results.
During the Guadalcanal campaign, on August 21, 1942, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki led 800 soldiers in a direct attack on the American line guarding Henderson Field in the Battle of the Tenaru. After small-scale combat engagement in the jungle, Ichiki's army mounted a banzai charge on the enemy; however, against an organized American defense line, most of the Japanese soldiers were killed and Ichiki subsequently committed suicide.
On May 29, 1943, at the end of the Battle of Attu, the remaining Japanese on Attu Island, Alaska, led by Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki, advanced on American lines near Massacre Bay. The Japanese force broke through the American front line and reached the rear echelon troops on Engineer Hill. In intense fighting which lasted all day, the Japanese force was wiped out. By the following day, only 28 remained of the Japanese force which had originally numbered roughly 2,600 - the rest having been killed in battle or committed suicide, while the Americans lost 549 combatants out of the 15,000 of the 7th Infantry Division which had landed to retake the island.
The largest banzai charge of the war took place during the Battle of Saipan. General Yoshitsugu Saitō gathered almost 4,300 Japanese soldiers, walking wounded and some civilians, many unarmed, and ordered the charge. On July 7, 1944, it slammed directly into the Army's 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 105th Infantry Regiment, which lost almost 2,000 men killed and wounded in the 15-hour pitched battle. The attack was ultimately repulsed, and almost all the Japanese soldiers taking part in the charge were killed.
During the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, as the 1st Red Banner Army invaded Mutanchiang, the Soviet 5th Army to the south continued its advance westward, enveloping and destroying the Japanese 278th Infantry Regiment, the survivors of which mounted a last-ditch banzai charge rather than surrender. By the end of the day, all of Mutanchiang had fallen into Soviet hands, and the battle for the city was over. Shortly afterward, the main strength of the Kwantung Army laid down its arms in surrender as per the Emperor's broadcast. The Battle of Mutanchiang, and World War II, had come to an end.
During the Battle of Shumshu, the 11th Tank Regiment, consisting of Type 97 medium tanks, Type 97 medium tanks with a new turret (Chi-Ha), and Type 95 light tanks, worked in cooperation with the naval guard force's Type 2 internal combustion boats (Type 2 tanks). Around 6:50 a.m. on the 18th, the regiment’s commanding officer led a banzai charge against the Soviet forces on Mount Shirane and drove them back, then advanced further up the northern slope of Mount Shirane. The Soviet forces fiercely resisted by concentrating anti-tank weapons (4 anti-tank guns, about 100 anti-tank rifles, and anti-tank phosphorus grenades), destroying Japanese tanks one by one. However, after being hit by anti-aircraft fire from the Japanese forces stationed southeast of Mount Shirane and with reinforcements from the Independent Infantry Battalion 283 joining the fight, the Soviet forces retreated to the north side of Mount Shirane, leaving behind numerous abandoned bodies. The 11th Tank Regiment lost 27 tanks, and 97 soldiers, including Colonel Ikeda and many officers, were killed in action. The naval guard force's Type 2 internal combustion boats also suffered losses, but several 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 of Iwo Jima.
See also
Wansui, Banzai
Banzai Cliff
Suicide Cliff
Siege of Port Arthur § Battle of 203 Meter Hill
Kamikaze – aerial suicide attacks used by the Japanese in WWII
Japanese Special Attack Units
Jibakutai
Bayonet charge
Highland charge
Human wave attack
References
= Sources
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Glantz, David (June 1983). August Storm: Soviet Tactical and Operational Combat in Manchuria, 1945. Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College.
Hideki Aihara (2017). 一九四五 占守島の真実：少年戦車兵が見た最後の戦場 [1945: The Truth about Shumushu Island: The Last Battlefield Seen by a Young Tank Soldier] (in Japanese). PHP Institute.
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Jul 6, 2012 · Against a less professional army, such as conscript forces in the Nationalist Chinese Army, a banzai charge could cause a force to rout. Another possibility is in limited visibility a banzai charge could reduce an enemy's artillery superiority by closely intermingling enemy and allied forces, which prevents artillery from being used because of ...
What exactly was a "Banzai Charge" and how was it different
May 22, 2013 · The "Banzai Charge" was a desperation counter-attack. However, some people confuse unsuccessful bayonet charges by the Japanese with Banzai charges. The Japanese learned early on in China and against the Americans and British that if they had a certain superiority, they could simply charge in and end the battle.
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Jan 21, 2013 · Now the banzai charge was specifically a suicidal decision. There was no real strategic value to conducting suicide charges and many officers understood this. In Japanese military doctrine, when units are ordered to hold a position and they lose contact with the command structure, they are to obey their standing orders till told otherwise.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Hello there! As a standard tactic, the banzai charge (as in a suicide attack; banzai is simply shorthand for tenno heika banzai, "Long live the emperor") actually represented a fairly late development in the span of the Second Sino-Japanese War and Asia-Pacific War (1937-1945). One of the most notable examples occurred at Attu (of the Aleutian ...
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Taking a huge squad for example, parking it near an objective, then on the last turn using a banzai to contest or capture the objective regardless of pins, or using it as a last-ditch charge for a heavily depleted and pinned squad to bring down some opponents.
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Jun 1, 2013 · The Banzai charge then began — Ichiki’s men were trained in a form of close fighting known as the spiritual power school in which bamboo spear tactics were stressed. They were referred to as a "shock regiment," designed to scare off their opponents without even firing a shot. They let out ominous screams as they charged.
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Jul 27, 2020 · The last time banzai charges were the "main" method of attack was during the Russo-Japanese War, when they proved immensely costly in the Siege of Port Arthur. By that war, Japan had already developed the precursor to what Europeans would later term infiltration tactics, and by WW2 infiltration was the primary method of infantry attack.
Ah, yes, the famous German Panzer Banzai tactic. : r/hoi4 - Reddit
Mar 3, 2020 · That's indeed weird. I first thought it was because (maybe) there were Japanese units involved. However, you are the only one around which means that you can actually execute a Banzai charge as long as your units are under Japanese control.
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On 29 May 1943, without hope of rescue, Yamasaki led his remaining troops in a banzai charge. The surprise attack broke through the American front line positions. Shocked American rear-echelon troops were soon fighting in hand-to-hand combat with Japanese soldiers. The battle continued until almost all of the Japanese were killed.
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Apr 29, 2022 · Japanese Banzai charge is supposed to target the nearest enemy within LOS… how does this interact if the closest enemy unit is on the second floor of…
