Ichirō Banzai (坂西 一良, Banzai Ichirō; January 26, 1891 – September 16, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was involved in the Pacific War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, first class, large cordon. He served as the Japanese military attaché in Germany on several occasions, and represented the interests of the Imperial Japanese Army in Berlin in the early part of World War II, from 1940 to 1943, when he returned to Japan. He later commanded a division and a corps in China during Operation Ichi-Go, and died in Shanghai shortly after the war ended.
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