(1) A few miles up the track lies Mt Austen, where the Japanese defended their most important command post with suicidal banzai counter-attacks.(2) From the simplest (a hearty cry of sku00e4l in Sweden or banzai in Japan) to the winding, poetic, hour-long toasts that briefly came into vogue in Ireland, it has been a long time since the hunting gods took any pleasure in the practice.(3) Some 500 supporters greeted Lee on his arrival by waving Taiwan's national flag and the u2018Hinomaru,u2019 or Japanese flag, while carrying welcome banners and chanting u2018Banzai, banzai !u2019(4) They resorted to one last desperate banzai mission that was put down without much of a struggle.(5) Then, before dawn on 29 May, they launched one of the biggest banzai charges of the war which overran two command posts and a medical station before being halted.(6) The emperor overrode his military, who wanted a banzai suicide last battle, and broadcast their unconditional surrender.(7) Company A beat off several banzai attacks but was bypassed and in danger of being cut off and surrounded.
