nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Such allocations were by pure accident, and it appears the aim of the 5th Aomori Regiment was to research 'how to deploy the troops in the snow and whether or not it is possible to carry the goods,' while that of the 31st Hirosaki Regiment was to research 'the attire for march in the snow, the way of marching and others' as a whole.
Japanese: このような形になったのは全くの偶然であり、弘前第31連隊は「雪中行軍に関する服装、行軍方法等」の全般に亘る研究が目的だったのに対し、青森第5連隊は「雪中における軍の展開、物資の輸送の可否」が目的だったとされている。
English: A Company Commander and Army Infantry Captain Bunkichi KANNARI led the troops.
Japanese: 部隊の指揮を執っていたのは、中隊長で陸軍歩兵大尉の神成文吉（かんなりぶんきち）である。
English: Captain Bunkichi KANNARI, from Akita Prefecture, was assigned as a staff sergeant of the Army Infantry after having trained in Rikugun Kyododan (an academy established to train noncommissioned officers) and became Army Infantry Captain, being promoted sequentially.
Japanese: 神成文吉大尉は、秋田県の出身で、陸軍教導団を経て陸軍歩兵二等軍曹に任官し、順次昇進して陸軍歩兵大尉となった人物である。
English: The incident became clear when Corporal Fusanosuke GOTO who, on Captain Kannari's command, was on the way to inform of the emergency and was found in a state of apparent death by the search party on January 27.
Japanese: 神成大尉の命を受けて危急を知らせる途上で仮死状態となっていた後藤房之助伍長が1月27日に捜索隊に発見されたことから、遭難の詳細が判明した。
English: Final survivors were only 11 persons; Captain Hajime KURAISHI (Yamagata Prefecture), Lieutenant Masaaki ITO (Yamagata Prefecture), Sergeant Major Teizo HASEGAWA (Akita Prefecture), Corporal Fusanosuke GOTO (Miyagi Prefecture), Corporal Chuzaburo OHARA (Iwate Prefecture), Corporal Heisuke OIKAWA (Iwate Prefecture), Corporal Fumichika MURAMATSU (Miyagi Prefecture), Private First Ukichi ABE (Iwate Prefecture), Private First Sosuke GOTO (Iwate Prefecture), Private First Tokujiro YAMAMOTO (Aomori Prefecture), Private First Hisamatsu ABE (Iwate Prefecture).
Japanese: 最終的に生存したのは、倉石一大尉（山形）、伊藤格明中尉（山形）、長谷川貞三特務曹長（秋田）、後藤房之助伍長（宮城）、小原忠三郎伍長（岩手）、及川平助伍長（岩手）、村松文哉伍長（宮城）、阿部卯吉一等卒（岩手）、後藤惣助一等卒（岩手）、山本徳次郎一等卒（青森）、阿部寿松一等卒（岩手）、の11人のみであった。
English: Most of the survivors were forced to have their legs and arms amputated due to frostbite except Captain Kuraishi, Lieutenant Ito and Sergeant Major Hasegawa.
Japanese: 生存した将兵も、倉石大尉、伊藤中尉、長谷川特務曹長以外の、そのほとんどが凍傷により足や手の切断を余儀なくされた。
English: Captain Kuraishi, who had been injured most slightly, died in the Battle of Kokkodai in the Russo-Japanese War on January 27.
Japanese: また、一番元気だった倉石大尉は日露戦争の黒溝台会戦で1月27日に戦死した。
English: Howevr, Fusanosuke KONDO himself could hardly look at it without embarrassment, though he was told to take a close look at it by the Colonel of a regiment at that time.
Japanese: が、後藤房之助本人は当時の連隊長に「よく見ろ」と言われたが、照れくさくなかなか見ることができなかったという。
English: He didn't want to talk much about the incident and got along well with Corporal Muramatsu, who was also a survivor of the incident.
Japanese: 彼は遭難の話はあまり話したがらず、また、後藤伍長は同じく生き残りの村松伍長と仲が良かった。
English: Other than the bronze statue of Corporal Goto, there stands a plate which reads, 'This is the place where Corporal Goto was found.', on the current Aomori Prefectural Highway 40, Aomori Tashiro Towada Line.
Japanese: 後藤伍長は銅像のほか、現在青森県道40号青森田代十和田線の路上に「後藤伍長発見の地」という板が立っている。
English: A snowslide accident in which two people were killed and eight injured occurred on February 14 on this course.
Japanese: 同コースでは、2月14日に、死者2人・重軽傷者8人を出す雪崩事故が発生した。
English: A local villager offered a guide at Tamogino but they declined it, making the journey on midwinter Hakkoda-san Mountain only with a map and compass.
Japanese: 田茂木野において地元村民が案内役を買ってでるが、これを断り地図と方位磁針のみで厳寒期の八甲田山走破を行うことになった。
English: However, they took a long halt near Otouge (big pass) as the weather was getting worse and the sledge troop began straggling.
Japanese: しかし、大峠付近にて天候が悪化し、ソリ隊も遅れはじめたことから、大休止を取った。
English: The provisions they had brought froze, which forced most of the soldiers to suffer from no food.
Japanese: 携帯した食料類は凍りついてしまい食事を取らない兵士が大多数を占める事態となった。
English: Returning to the post was discussed once due to concerns about equipment and deteriorating weather, however, they continued marching even as noncommissioned officers opposed it.
Japanese: 装備の不安と天候がさらに悪化することを恐れ、駐屯地への一時帰営を協議したが下士官などの反対により、行軍を続行することになる。
English: From there, snow became much deeper, marching speed slowed down, and the sledge troop carrying provisions and fuel dropped behind the main troop more than an hour.
Japanese: ここから積雪量が格段に深くなり、行軍速度が落ち、食料と燃料などを積んだソリ部隊は本隊より1時間以上遅れることとなった。
English: Captain Kannari made the second and the third platoons, 88 people in total, go to help the sledge troop and a construction party, 15 people, go first as an advance troop and patrol toward Tashiro.
Japanese: 神成大尉は第2、第3小隊計88名をソリ隊の応援に向かわせると同時に、設営隊15名を田代方面に斥候を兼ねた先遣隊として先行させた。
English: The construction party which was going ahead as an advance troop could not find the track, joining together the main party by accident while being lost.
Japanese: 先遣隊として先行していた設営隊も進路を発見できず、道に迷っていたところを偶然にも本隊と合流した。
English: After 8 p.m. they reached Hirasawa forest which was 1.5km from Tashiro Motoyu, however, they lost even the track toward Tashiro, being blinded by sundown.
Japanese: 夜8時過ぎに田代元湯まであと1.5kmの平沢の森まで進出するが、日没により前後不覚となり田代方面への進路も発見できなくなった。
English: Therefore, they dug a moat in the snow and camped out, making a decision that it was impossible to march anymore.
Japanese: そのため、これ以上の行軍は不可能と判断し雪濠を掘って露営することとなった。
English: The fuel such as charcoal fire didn't work for them to have warmth, and the troops nearly went missing.
Japanese: 暖を取ろうにも炭火などの燃料が用を成さず、部隊は遭難に近い状態となる。
English: The troops started toward Umatateba, however, they were lost in a gorge near Narusawa around 3 a.m., forced to climb the cliff.
Japanese: 部隊は馬立場を目指すが午前3時半ごろに鳴沢付近でゴルジュに迷い込み、崖をよじ登ることになる。
English: Although they were the first victims of this march, nobody could confirm that in such a blizzard.
Japanese: この行軍における最初の犠牲者であるが、猛吹雪で誰も確認ができなかったという。
English: On the way, around 8 a.m., Sergeant Major Sato told the top officers that he had found the track leading to Tashiro Motoyu.
Japanese: 途中、午前8時半ごろに佐藤特務曹長が田代元湯に至る道を発見したと上層部に進言した。
English: They reached the stream of Komagome-gawa River, however, all soldiers were completely exhausted by then, which affected the control, breaking formation.
Japanese: 駒込川の沢に到達するが、その頃の進軍は全員疲労困憊しており、隊列も整わず統制に支障が出始めた。
English: However, the way to return was erased completely in the blizzard, making the troops lose their way.
Japanese: が、もと来た道は吹雪により完全に消されており部隊は完全に前後不覚の状態になり遭難となった。
English: Lieutenant Mizuno of the fouth platoon fainted along with his orderly and died while they were escaping from the stream of Komagome-gawa River, which lowered the morale of the troops.
Japanese: 駒込川の沢を脱出する際、第4小隊の水野中尉が従卒と共に卒倒の上凍死し、部隊の士気が下がった。
English: The troop was out of control and, furthermore, they had to camp out literally in the windblown open because the soldiers carrying the tools to dig a moat in the snow had dropped out and disappered.
Japanese: 部隊は統制が取れない上、雪濠を掘ろうにもそれらの道具を所持していた隊員は全員落伍して行方不明となっており、文字通り吹曝しの露天に露営する状態となる。
English: Many soldiers fell unconscious and froze to death there due to nearly -50 degrees Celsius temperatures because sleepless and food-deprived since the previous day also contributed to their deaths.
Japanese: 吹雪で体感温度が-50℃近く、また前日よりほとんど不眠不休で絶食状態であるため、ここで多くの将兵が昏倒し、凍死していった。
English: At the same time, from the Aomori side, 40 people including Junior Lieutenant Kawawada went to Tamogino to meet the marching troop, which had not returned by the scheduled date and time.
Japanese: 一方、青森では帰営予定日時になっても帰営しない行軍隊を迎えに行くため、川和田少尉以下40名が田茂木野まで出迎えに行った。
English: The farewell party was given on that day for Lieutenant Matsuki, who was moving out to Hirosaki Regiment, and participants were saying 'It would be good if the marching troop returned now.'
Japanese: この日は弘前連隊へ転出する松木中尉の送別会を催していたが、出席者は「この場で行軍隊が戻ってきたらうれしい話だな」と話し合っていた。
English: They marched following their instincts, relying on the map because the compass was frozen and didn't work.
Japanese: コンパスは凍りついて用を成さず、地図を頼りに、ほぼ勘に頼っての行軍となっていた。
English: This made many of the soldiers who remained, who had made great efforts not to drop out, go mad.
Japanese: そのため、それまで何とか落伍せずに頑張っていた多くの兵士が、この一言により箍が外れた。
English: Many people froze to death in this way, taking off their clothes, going into the river yelling, 'I'll go down the cliff so that I can reach Aomori', or walking toward trees yelling, 'I'll make a raft to go down the river to go home.'
Japanese: 発狂して服を脱ぎ始める者、「この崖を降りれば青森だ!」と叫び川に飛び込む者、「筏を作って川下りをして帰るぞ」と叫び樹に向かって行きそのまま倒れこむ者と、凍死者が続出した。
English: Captain Okitsu had been frostbitten since the previous evening and was attended to by Karuishi SANZO.
Japanese: 昨晩の夕方から興津大尉は凍傷にかかっており軽石三蔵らが手当てしていた。
English: And more than a dozen soldiers disappeared including those who were found alive later such as Sergeant Major Hasegawa.
Japanese: さらに、長谷川特務曹長など後に生存者として発見される兵士を含む兵士十数名が行方不明となる。
English: Sergeant Major Hasdgawa slipped behind and got lost, finding a charcoal house in Hirasawa about 2 p.m. and stayed there along with a few people following him.
Japanese: 長谷川特務曹長は滑落し道に迷っており、彼に従った数名は午後2時頃平沢の炭小屋を発見しそこに滞在していた。
English: However, they put out the charcoal fire around 3 a.m. on the 26th, the next day, afraid of a fire because they were all extremely exhausted, and they never had warmth after that.
Japanese: が全員疲労が激しく翌26日午前3時頃に火事になる可能性を恐れ炭火を消し、その後は暖を取ることは無かった。
English: Major Yamaguchi fell unconscious when the main troop returned to the camp at 5:30 a.m. and Captain Kuraishi asked the Major to leave a will.
Japanese: 本隊が午前5時30分頃に露営地に戻った頃に山口少佐が人事不省となり、倉石大尉は少佐に遺言を求めた。
English: Around 7 a.m. Captain Kuraishi, who was relatively calm, collected some soldiers as a patrol troop and 15 people who remained relatively strong started off toward Umatateba.
Japanese: 午前7時頃、比較的冷静だった倉石大尉は斥候隊を募り、比較的元気な15名が馬立場方面への斥候へ向かった。
English: However, it didn't last long, and around 10 a.m. a soldier, having seen a tree swinging, screamed 'There comes a rescue team!', which made others start screaming, 'It's true!', 'Mummy!', one after another.
Japanese: がその状況も長くは続かず、午前10時頃には木が揺れるのを見た1人の兵士が「救助隊が来た!」と叫ぶと、他の者も「本当に来た!」「母ちゃ～ん!」と叫び始めた。
English: It is said Captain Kuraishi made Private Trumpet Hayashidayu KASUGA blow a trumpet to calm them down every time they got into such situations.
Japanese: 倉石大尉は、その状況になる度に春日林太夫喇叭卒に喇叭を吹かせて冷静さを取り戻したという。
English: Around 11:30 a.m., Takahashi, the head of patrol troop, returned and informed them that they had found the way home and were marching toward Tashiromogi.
Japanese: 午前11時30分頃高橋斥候長が戻ってきて帰路を発見し田茂木方面へ進軍中との報告をした。
English: And Private First Sasaki and Corporal Takahashi, who found the way home near Umatateba, were frozen to death lying on top of each other.
Japanese: また、馬立場付近で帰路を発見した佐々木一等卒と高橋伍長は重なり合うようにして凍死した。
English: Lieutenant Ohashi and army surgeon Nagai had already disappeared when Captain Kuraishi realized it around 5 p.m.
Japanese: 夜5時頃倉石大尉が気づいた時には大橋中尉、永井軍医が行方不明となっていた。
English: The people of the medical detachment, such as army surgeon Nagai and chief nurse Ryuzo SAKURAI, tried so hard treating other soldiers that they themselves fell in the end.
Japanese: 永井軍医や桜井龍造看護長といった医療班は、兵の看護を無理をして続けていたが、その結果本人達も斃れてしまう結果となった。
English: Many soldiers were frozen to death as the chill was too severe to camp out that day, though they burned the rucksacks of dead soldiers to scarcely preserve heat.
Japanese: この日の露営は寒さに堪えかねて、凍死した将兵の背嚢を燃やすなどして何とか寒さを凌ぐものの、それでも大多数の兵士が凍死していった。
English: In Aomori, 40 people including Lieutenant Kozeki, waited for them, making rice gruel with a rice cooker they had brought with them, thinking the troop would return that day because the weather was better than the previous day.
Japanese: 青森では天候が前日よりも良かったので今日こそは帰ってくるだろうと、小関中尉以下40名は炊飯具を携行して幸畑で粥を作って待っていた。
English: The people waiting in the barracks sent a telegraph to Sanbongi police, thinking the troop might be marching toward Sanbongi.
Japanese: 屯営では行軍隊が三本木方面に抜けているのでは考え、三本木警察に電報を出した。
English: Major Yamaguchi fell unconscious while camping out the previous day and marched being carried by soldiers.
Japanese: 前日の露営で山口少佐が再び人事不省となり、少佐は兵卒に担がれる状態で行軍する。
English: Naturally, Captain Kannari and Captain Kuraishi were in the lead, but, other than that, soldiers followed them regardless of their positions or ranks.
Japanese: 先頭は神成大尉、倉石大尉と自然に決まっていたが、それ以外は所属も階級も関係なく、将兵が後から続く形となっていた。
English: Captain Kannari and others were in the head reconnoitering a highland ahead and Captain Kuraishi was in the rear.
Japanese: 神成大尉らは前方高地を偵察する形で前方を行き、倉石大尉は後方を進んでいた。
English: They were forced to camp out standing in a circle, with officers in a center and soldiers surrounding them, as they couldn't even have a warm.
Japanese: 露営をするが、暖を取る事も叶わず、将校を中心に周りを兵卒が囲む形で立ったまま休む状態で露営をすることとなった。
English: They returned to Tamogino after searching to Otouge due to temperatures as low as -14 degrees Celsius, harsh wind and snow.
Japanese: 大峠まで捜索活動を行ったが、この日の気温は-14℃であり、風雪も厳しく、捜索を断念して田茂木野へ引き返した。
English: Captain Kuraishi joined Captain Kannari, Officers Designate Imaizumi, Lieutenant Nakano and Junior Lieutenant Suzuki where the road ahead split in two.
Japanese: 倉石大尉は目の前の道が二手に分かれる場所で神成大尉、今泉見習士官、中野中尉、鈴木少尉らと合流した。
English: They decided to separate into two groups to march in different directions (This is said to have been the fourth day, however, Captain Kuraishi said that this was the fifth day and it is likely to be true).
Japanese: 談合し、隊は二手に別れて行動する事になった（四日目とも言われるが倉石大尉は五日目と証言しており恐らくこちらの方が正しい）。
English: The number of survivors was 30 at that point and they were divided into two groups; the one was led by Captain Kuraishi and Major Yamaguchi and the other by Captain Kannari.
Japanese: この時点で生存者は30名で倉石大尉と山口少佐を中心とするグループと、神成大尉を中心とするグループに分かれていた。
English: The group of Captain Kuraishi marched toward Komagome-gawa River and several people fell including Lieutenant Nakano.
Japanese: 倉石大尉のグループは駒込川方面を進むが、中野中尉をはじめ数名が倒れた。
English: They could neither move through nor return, having been caught in a stream on the way.
Japanese: 途中青岩付近で沢にはまってしまい、進むことも戻ることもできなくなった。
English: Junior Lieutenant Suzuki, out of the four people remaining, left the group saying he was going to reconnoiter a highland, and was never to return.
Japanese: 残り4人の中から鈴木少尉が高地を見に行くと言い、出発したがそのまま帰ってこなかった。
English: Tokusaburo OIKAWA fell into critical condition and died in spite of the treatment he received while the three of them stayed with him.
Japanese: 3人となりしばらく留まるなかで、及川篤三郎が危篤となり手当ての甲斐なく死亡した。
English: Captain Kannari ordered Corporal Goto to, 'Go to Tamogino and ask the local residents to contact the Regiment'.
Japanese: 神成大尉は後藤伍長に「田茂木に行って住民を雇い、連隊への連絡を依頼せよ」と命令した。
English: They moved to Otakidaira persuading the guide that they must meet the marching troop today at any cost.
Japanese: 今日こそは何としてでも雪中行軍隊と接触しようと、案内人を何とか説得して、大滝平に進んだ。
English: Around 10 a.m. the platoon led by Lieutenant Mikami found Corporal Goto standing in the snow near Otakidaira.
Japanese: 午前10時頃、三上中尉率いる小隊が大滝平付近で雪中に立つ後藤伍長を発見した。
English: He recalled, 'I was just walking forward desperately, not knowing the distance from the others, when I was saved by the rescue team'.
Japanese: 本人はこの時のことを「其距離等も詳かに知る能はず、所謂夢中に前進中救援隊のために救われたり」と述べている。
English: Tonippo (local newspaper of Aomori Prefecture) reported the circumstances of his discovery as, 'He didn't move, standing upright, just looking around.'
Japanese: 発見時の様子を東奥日報は「直立せしまま身動きもせずキョロキョロせしのみ」と報じる。
English: Sounan Shimatsusho' (report of the disaster) reported that he was standing upright like a sentry in a state of apparent death.
Japanese: また、「遭難始末」では仮死状態で歩哨の如く直立していたと述べられている。
English: They searched the vicinity as the Corporal had managed to say 'Captain Kannari' and found him lying down nearby.
Japanese: 伍長が「神成大尉」と微かに語ったため、付近を捜索するとすぐ先に神成大尉が倒れていた。
English: They tried to inject a stimulant into his chest, however, the needle broke because even his skin was frozen.
Japanese: 腕に気付け薬を注射しようとしたが、皮膚まで凍っていたため針が折れてしまった。
English: At 19:40, Junior Lieutenant Mikami ran into the official residence of regiment officers and informed them that they had found Corporal Goto near Otakidaira, all of the marching troop seem to be dead, and that about the half of 60 people of the rescue team had become incapacitated due to frostbite.
Japanese: 19時40分、三上少尉が連隊長官舎に駆け込み大滝平で後藤伍長を発見したことと雪中行軍が「全滅の模様」であること、2時間の捜索で「救助隊60余名中、約半数が凍傷で行動不可」となったことを知らせた。
English: At night on January 27, in the group of Captain Kuraishi, Officer Designate Santaro IMAIZUMI jumped into a river along with a noncommissioned officer, though the others had tried to stop them.
Japanese: 1月27日の夜、倉石大尉らの一隊では今泉三太郎見習士官が下士1名を伴い周りが制止するのも聞かず川に飛び込んだ。
English: On January 28, in the group of Captain Kuraishi, Sergeant Major Sato jumped into a river along with a noncommissioned officer and froze to death.
Japanese: 1月28日には倉石大尉らの一隊では、佐藤特務曹長が下士兵卒を連れ川に飛び込んだが、そのまま凍死した。
English: Captain Kuraishi said, 'He disappeared, going to inform the Regiment,' about that.
Japanese: これに関しても倉石大尉は「連隊に連絡しようとして行ったまま行方不明」と述べている。
English: There were two places where divided soldiers stayed; the one place was on the riverside, where Major Yamaguchi stayed and the other was where Captain Kuraishi stayed.
Japanese: 山口少佐がいる川岸の場所と、倉石大尉らのいる場所の二つに別れて兵士がいた。
English: The name of Sai-no-kawara (the Children's limbo) was named because many village people had also frozen to death there before.
Japanese: 「賽の河原」の名前は、以前にもここで凍死した村の人が多くいたために付けられていたといわれる。
English: Around 9 a.m. on January 31, Corporal Takeo MIURA and Private First Ukichi ABE, who had been staying in a charcoal making shack in the northern Narusawa, were rescued, though Corporal Miura died after being rescued.
Japanese: 1月31日午前9時頃、鳴沢北方の炭焼き小屋にいた三浦武雄伍長と阿部卯吉一等卒の2人が救出されるが三浦伍長は救出後に死亡した。
English: Private First ABE said they remembered starting on the third day and that they just realized they were going into the shack, not knowing what they had done until then.
Japanese: 3日目に出発したところまでは覚えているが、それ以降は分からず、気づいたら小屋に飛び込んでいたという内容の証言をしている。
English: Around 3 p.m., the four including Captain Kuraishi and Lieutenant Ito were found, and as a result, the nine survivors in total were found where they had gone forward about 250 meters.
Japanese: 15時頃、250メートルほど進んだところで倉石大尉、伊藤中尉ら4人が発見され、生存者計9人が発見された。
English: However, further verification is required as there are a theory of his having committed suicide with a gun (Koshu OGASAWARA and Jiro NITTA, who interviewed him, put forward this theory) and another theory, by Akitomo MATSUKI, that needs more background says, 'It was impossible for his frozen fingers to manipulate a gun.'
Japanese: しかしピストル自殺説（小笠原孤酒及び彼に取材した新田次郎が採っている）もあることや「凍傷の指で銃の操作は不可能」として新たな背景を探る松木明知の研究もあり、更なる検証・進展が望まれる。
English: At Narusawa, 33 bodies including that of Lieutenant Tadayoshi MIZUNO (the eldest son of Tadatomo MIZUNO, the 10th lord of Kii-Shingu Domain [the lord of Kii-Shingu Domain]) were found.
Japanese: 鳴沢では他に水野忠宜中尉（紀伊新宮藩10代藩主水野忠幹(紀伊新宮藩主)の長男）以下33名の遺体を発見した。
English: On February 1, several bodies were found near Sai-no-kawara and more than a dozen between Yasunoki-mori Forest and Nakano-mori Forest.
Japanese: 2月1日には賽の河原付近にて数名の、按ノ木森から中ノ森にかけ十数名の遺体を発見した。
English: Around 11 o'clock on February 2, an earthquake occurred, breaking down the roof of the shack in Hirasawa, and four survivors; Sergeant Major Hasegawa, Private First Hisamatsu ABE, Private Masanori SASAKI and Private Sahei ONODERA who were staying in the shack were found.
Japanese: 2月2日11時頃地震が発生し、その際平沢の炭小屋で屋根が崩れその中にいた長谷川特務曹長、阿部寿松一等卒、佐々木正教二等卒、小野寺佐平二等卒の4人の生存者が発見される。
English: Around 3 p.m., the last survivor, Corporal Matsumura, who had parted from the file since the third day, was found along with the body of Private First Youkichi FURUTACHI at Tashiro Motoyu.
Japanese: 15時頃には3日目に隊列を離れていた最後の生存者村松伍長が古館要吉一等卒の遺体と共に田代元湯で発見された。
English: The rescue effort was large-scale and 10,000 people were involved, including the Aomori Regiment, Hirosaki Regiment and the fifth Sendai Artillery.
Japanese: 救助活動は青森連隊、弘前連隊、更には仙台第5砲兵隊も出動した大掛かりな体制になり、延べ1万人が投入された。
English: Later, the Aomori Regiment continued rescue effort on their own after completing the accommodation of the survivors and the establishment of the way of searching.
Japanese: その後、生存者の収容の完了と捜索方法の確立と共に青森連隊独自で行った。
English: They put a material distributing base in Kohata and a searching headquarters in Tamogino as the main posts, building base camps called patrol posts, then made them move forward.
Japanese: 救助拠点は、幸畑に資材集散基地、田茂木に捜索本部を置き、そこから哨戒所と呼ばれるベースキャンプを構築、前進させる方法が取られた。
English: The method of searching was like this; determining the marching route according to the stoies of the survivors and the marching plans, making people walk forward along that route in a 30 meters wide line (about 30 people in one line) stabbing a 10 meter long stick into the snow, and digging up the places where something strange was felt.
Japanese: 捜索は、生存者の証言と行軍計画を参照して行軍ルートを割出し、そのルートを重点として、横幅30m（およそ30人一列）になって、其々が所持する長さ10m程の竹棒を雪中に突き刺しながら前進し、少しでも違和感がある手応えを感知するとその下を掘削する方法が採られた。
English: After one month, the snow had become hard like sherbet as the snow had been tread down by the rescue team and the temperature had changed.
Japanese: 1ヵ月も経過すると、捜索隊員によって雪が踏み固められたり、気温の変化で雪がシャーベット状になり、かなり固くなってしまった。
English: In the early stages of the search, they invited a party of Ainu tribe from Hokkaido, searching with them and their hunting dogs, finding bodies successfully.
Japanese: また、捜索活動初期の頃、北海道からアイヌ人一行を招き、彼等と彼等が所有する猟犬と共に捜索活動を行い、遺体発見でかなりの成果を挙げた。
English: A body found was dug up by several people and carried to the patrol post.
Japanese: 発見された遺体は、1体に数人程度をかけて掘り出して哨戒所に運搬した。
English: It was frozen to such an extent that it would have fallen apart to pieces from its joints if you had treated it roughly.
Japanese: 余りに凍りついていたため、粗略に扱うと遺体が関節の部分から粉々に砕けるからであった。
English: In the patrol post, the bodies were stripped off, thawed by direct heat, and carried to the headquarters in coffins.
Japanese: 哨戒所にて衣服を剥いだ後、直火にて遺体を解凍し、棺に収容して本部まで運搬した。
English: Most of the bodies sunken in the water had drifted away because it was difficult to salvage them.
Japanese: 水中に没した遺体は引揚げ作業が難航し、そのまま流されてしまうものが多数であった。
English: Therefore, they made a sandbar to prevent the bodies from drifting away in the Komagome-gawa River that runs Kohata Village and recovered the bodies which were caught on it.
Japanese: そのため、幸畑村を流れる駒込川に流出防止の柵を構築し、そこに引っ掛かった遺体から順次収容して行った。
English: The bodies recovered in that way ended up being stored in the fifth Regiment post, where they were cremated or sent home after their bereaved family had met and confirmed them.
Japanese: こうして発見された遺体は、最終的に5連隊駐屯所に運ばれ、そこで遺族と面会、確認の後、そこで荼毘に付されるか故郷へ帰っていった。
English: The march was carried out on the day of the lowest temperature ever recorded in the country (on January 25, -41.1 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature ever observed in Japan, was recorded in Asahikawa) when Typical winter pressure patterns such as, the high-pressure area to the west, and the low-pressure area to the east, and an unprecedented cold air mass was covering the Japanese archipelago.
Japanese: 雪中行軍が行われたのは、冬季によく見られる典型的な西高東低の気圧配置で、未曾有の寒気団が日本列島を襲っていた時で、日本各地で観測史上における最低気温を更新した日でもある（旭川で1月25日、日本最低記録である-41.0℃を記録した）。
English: The fifth Aomori Regiment recorded that the temperature in the mountain on which the troop got lost was lower than -20 degrees Celsius, though it's not clear because the hospital corpsman who was in charge of observations died before leaving a record.
Japanese: 行軍隊の遭難した山中の気温は、観測係であった看護兵が記録も残せず死亡したため定かでないが、-20℃以下だったとの推測を青森5連隊が報告書の中で残している。
English: The equipment soldiers had during marching was as follows; ' a woolen coat' ' a woolen service cap' ' a winter military uniform of cotton flannel' ' cotton work gloves' 'long ammunition boots' 'long straw boots for snow', for soldiers whose ranks were Sergeant Major or higher, and ' wearing two woolen coats' ' an ordinary felt service cap' ' an ordinary military uniform of Ogura fabric' ' cotton work gloves' 'short ammunition boots' for noncommissioned officers or lower.
Japanese: 雪中行軍時、将兵の装備は、特務曹長（准士官）以上が「毛糸の外套1着」「毛糸の軍帽」「ネル生地の冬軍服」「軍手1足」「長脚型軍靴」「長靴型雪沓」、下士兵(日本軍)が「毛糸の外套2着重ね着」「フェルト地の普通軍帽」「小倉生地の普通軍服」「軍手1足」「短脚型軍靴」であった。
English: In particular, noncommissioned officers were given only two woolen coats as their cold protection equipment (about the military uniform of Japanese Army at that time, see also Military Uniform [Imperial Japanese Army]).
Japanese: とくに下士官兵卒の防寒装備に至っては、毛糸の外套2枚を渡されただけである（当時の日本陸軍の軍装については軍服(大日本帝国陸軍)も参照）。
English: It is said that Captain Kuraishi had escaped frostbite thanks to his rubber boots which he had happened to buy when he had been in Tokyo at New Year's.
Japanese: 倉石大尉はゴム靴を持っていたことが結果として凍傷を防いだと言われるが、これは正月に東京に行った際にたまたま買っていたものであった。