Daruma on a Good Luck Flag signed in English also?

Hello Team,

May I please have some assistance on this Good Luck Flag that I own.

It has a Daruma on the bottom corner. It looks to be signed by several Japanese Officers in both Kanji and English.

Thoughts??

Thanks as always,

Michael

Can anyone provide information?

I think that it cannot take English signature as English is an enemy's language in those days.
Or is it a German of the residence in Japan?
An owner of the flag is Second Lieutenant of navy.
I do not know the family name clearly, but think the name to be "佯司(SHOUJI)".
(近谷 佯司)
The person's name of the picture of Dharma.
陸軍大佐 (Army Colonel) 吉? 徳三 (Yoshi ? Tokuzou)
others
海軍技術大尉 (Navy Technical Captain)
鴈野 重弘 (Ganno Shigehiro)
海軍書記(Navy secretary)
木賊 義則 (Tokusa Yoshinori)

Is an owner of this flag not a technical officer?
It is special that there are the army and the signature of the naval officer.
Was the signature of English not added later?

Looks like the English writing says "Yoshitani" (maybe "Col. T. Yoshitani", or "Col. J. Yoshitani"). It would indeed be strange to sign a very patriotic flag using the alphabet of the enemy. Since there are no apparent German signatures on the flag, it is quite unusual. I can't quite get the large letters on the right; something 必勝 (something "certain victory")

In all other respects it looks genuine. Most of the flags we see here usually look funny, modern, ultra fake, or otherwise suspicious. This flag looks interesting - a ton of signatures, all written with various brushes and styles, no fake names (like Tojo Hideki), no anachronisms or obvious Chinese spellings, names of presumably real people with real ranks that (again, presumably) can be researched and verified, etc. It really looks fine except for the English signature. As Nagashima-san suggests, maybe the English writing was added later? Or maybe it was signed before the anti-Western sentiment really started ramping up? (Pre-Pearl Harbor)?

Thank you both for your comments and wisdom.

I too have never seen a Japanese Good Luck Flag with an "English name" and I wondered if there was any chance it was written when the Flag was captured/liberated?

Anyway, it's different, that's why like it, but again you're comments give me great comfort that it's absolutely originally done by original pre-war people.