Shuhei Mizushima written this song, he was a student in a army-associated secondary school. The song talks about the daily struggles of a secondary student, with themes like hating math and stuff, as there was no music score, the theme of "Battle Hymn of the republic", an American military song was used as the song.


This song was controversial at the time and in a society like imperial Japan, it's not hard to see why.


Mizushima was reprimanded by the school authorities for referring to the book bag as a beggar bag with these lyrics, and was banned from going out. However, the instructor of Kokuhanbun said that he was pleased that he would be satisfied if he write lyrics that are good.
In addition, Akikatsu Kato, the lyricist of "Infantry Song," was also a fellow student in the 10th period of Meiko. (The above is the history of the famous kindergarten, Volume 2 Foreign history;

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