banzai
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Last September, hundreds of people gathered at a court in Shizuoka, a city on Japan's south coast, where a judge handed down the acquittal - to loud cheers of "banzai", or "hurray" in Japanese.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
The Japanese fired mortars and large artillery ahead of banzai charges by fearless soldiers willing to run into the Americans’ Browning machine guns.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
“We decided it must be a banzai attack,” Gibbs recalled.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
John Sidur rescued two hometown buddies during Japan’s largest banzai attack of the war, near the end of the Battle of Saipan in July 1945.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2017
To all units: Be on the alert for banzai attacks.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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