At age 12, in defiance of his family's opposition, Lin Liu-hsin had taken a ship alone to Japan to study, supporting himself by selling newspapers and the stinky soybeans (known as natto in Japanese and nadou in Chinese) that Japanese eat as a snack. Eventually he graduated from the College of Medicine at Nihon University Tokyo.
林柳新先生 12 歲時不顧家人反對，獨自搭船到日本求學，靠賣報紙和納豆，完成東京日本大學醫學院學業，為感念先輩辛勞，館內還特別設立「納豆劇場」。