Japanese engineer captain Sugihara Miyotaro (1880 - 1975, later he would rose to the rank of lieutenant general) was undergoing training in the Pommersches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 2 in Germany. In 1910 the battalion commander received the 4th Rising Sun order and von Dzierakowski /as a company commander in the same battalion/ received the 5th class order.