Question 104

Gyokusai  literally "shattered jade", is a Japanese euphemism for suicide attack, or suicide in the face of defeat (seppuku). It is based on a quote of the 7th century Classical Chinese text Book of Northern Qi, "A great man should die as a shattered jewel rather than live as an intact tile." It was applied to a conception of honorable death in defeat by Saigō Takamori (1827–1877), and employed as a slogan ichioku gyokusai  "one hundred million broken jewels" by the Japanese government during the last months of the Pacific War, when Japan faced invasion by the Allies. Some of the precepts for this belief also came from Tsunetomo Yamamoto's Hagakure, a well-known 18th-century treatise on bushido.

Allied troops during World War II called massed infantry attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army, "X charges" or "X attacks" because the assaulting Japanese infantrymen yelled "X!" as they charged the Allied soldiers. The "X" a battle cry to the fighting unit making the charge, was a gesture of courage to follow the attack through. In the Japanese language "X" , literally "ten thousand years", is a common exhortation of long life or celebration in Japan, essentially wishing for something or someone to persevere for eternity. During World War II,Tennōheika X!  literally "Ten thousand years to the Emperor" became a Japanese battle cry during charges, and was thus taken up by their Allied opponents. The term was seldom used in this way by the Japanese.

ID X... 


HINT : If u have played Call of Duty games based on WWII , you probably have learnt to hate and fear this phrase...


Answer : Banzai... Cracked by Nevil, arpit, @B#!j33T and VK