In the city of Kagoshima, Hayashi traced a former adjutant with the Volunteers, a Mr. Nakamura, and was able, with difficulty, to contact the man's wife. It turned out that her husband, who had once led a detachment of Takasago Volunteers to New Guinea, had passed away the year before, but had left behind a register of members of the 5th Takasago Volunteers.
在日本鹿兒島市，林榮代打聽到有位中村先生曾擔任義勇隊的副官，好不容易找到副官的妻子在電話中談及先生曾率義勇隊至新幾內亞，一年前已經逝世了，但身後留有第五回義勇隊隊員的名簿。