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In movies depicting the Japanese in WWII, individual soldiers are often shown repeatedly charging in with bayonets against Americans rather than engaging in close range firefights. Aside from banzai charges, was this some core part of Japanese military training or something they really did?

by /u/Elphinstone1842 in /r/AskHistorians

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