However, since the reliability of descriptions of "Chronicles of Japan" did not increase, the dispute regarding the enthronement theory was not solved, and was left to the conjecture of scholars.
しかしこの間、『日本書紀』の記述の信頼性が高まったわけでもないので、即位説をめぐる論争は決定打を欠くまま諸学者の推測にゆだねられることになった。