At the same time, he directed the research project for the law system of the Qing Dynasty by setting up another group led by Yorozu ODA, who was also a jurist and professor of Kyoto Imperial University, Naoki KANO, who was still a research student at that time but later became the scholar of Chinese philosophy, and Shigeru KATO, a historian of Chinese history.
また同じく京都大学教授で法学者の織田萬をリーダーとして当時まだ研究生であった中国哲学研究者の狩野直喜、中国史家の加藤繁などを加えて、清朝の法制度の研究をさせた。