In 1914, when Hiromichi NISHIKUBO, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Commissioner, delivered a lecture at the Police Training Center ("Budo Kowa" (The Lecture On Martial Arts), the Hokkaido Branch of the Police Association, 1915), he told that 'jutsu' (術, which means arts) in the name of bujutsu must be changed into 'do' (道, which means way).
大正3年、警視総監の西久保弘道は、警察訓練所での講話『武道講話』（警察協会北海道支部　1915年）において武術の名称を「術」でなく「道」でなければならないとした。