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===Russo-Japanese War=== During the [[Siege of Port Arthur]] (1904β1905), human wave attacks were conducted on Russian artillery and machine guns by the Japanese which ended up becoming suicidal.<ref name="Miller2014">{{cite book|author=John H. Miller|title=American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan: From Perry to Obama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uN1XAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|date=2 April 2014|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-8913-9|pages=41β}}</ref> Since the Japanese suffered massive casualties in the attacks,<ref name="Edgerton1997">{{cite book|author=Robert B. Edgerton|title=Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military|url=https://archive.org/details/warriorsofrising00edge|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-04085-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/warriorsofrising00edge/page/167 167]β}}</ref> one description of the aftermath was that "a thick, unbroken mass of corpses covered the cold earth like a coverlet."<ref name="O'ConnellBatchelor2002">{{cite book|author1=Robert L. O'Connell|author2=John H. Batchelor|author2-link=John H. Batchelor|title=Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoEagVTujdcC&pg=PA243|year=2002|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-84407-7|pages=243β}}</ref>
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