His interest in poverty relief resulted in both a friendship with Iwagoro MATSUBARA and Gennosuke YOKOYAMA and his influence over them, and they later became journalists dealing with labor problems and problems of the poor.
貧民救済への関心は、のちに貧民問題や労働問題を扱うジャーナリストとなる松原岩五郎や横山源之助との交友を生み、彼らに対して影響を与えることになった。