Six issues were distributed until Sakaguchi's arrest, torture, and eventual death at the hands of the Japanese authorities.
[7] Other Japanese POWs, who attended the School, would follow in Maeda's footsteps and join the Eighth Route Army during the war.
[1] An IJNAF A5M fighter pilot who was shot down on 26 September 1937, had along with other captured Japanese combatants, become convinced to join the Chinese side, and helped the Chinese break Japanese tactical codes and other information that provided a huge intelligence windfall for the newly established cryptanalyst unit headed by Dr. Chang Chao-hsi.
[10] Kobayashi Kancho, a Japanese POW who joined the Eighth Route Army during the war, stayed in China, where he worked at the foreign affairs office, and later the People's Hospital in Fengzhen.
[15] Upon his return he faced difficulty finding a proper job in Japan due to him being considered pro-communist.
[16] According to Hu Zhenjiang, a Chinese researcher on the topic of Japanese in the Eighth Route Army during WW2, he discovered Maeda to be cleaning parks for a living at the age of 89.
[19] A tombstone for Hideo Miyagawa, a Japanese soldier who served in the Eighth Route Army during WW2, is placed in the East China Martyr's cemetery.
[21] In September 2015, Premier Xi Jingping granted medals to 10 "international anti-fascist fighters who fought for China WW2."
Kobayashi Kancho, a Japanese soldier who served in the Eighth Route Army during the war, was one of 10 who received a medal in Beijing.