In addition to providing basic information about Taiwanese who were mobilized and sent overseas to fight at that time, interviews with Taiwanese soldiers for Japan "can help us understand the reasoning and feelings of the younger generation at the time of the Sino-Japanese War," says Chou Wan-yao.
台籍日本兵的口述訪談，除了將這段期間台灣人到海外當兵、動員等基本的史料弄清楚了，也「幫助我們瞭解中日戰爭期間年輕一代的邏輯和感情」，周婉窈說。