Concerning the assassination of Iruka and the ruin of head family of the Soga family that followed the incident, there was in recent years a viewpoint that the fights over the reform leadership between the Soga clan and the imperial families and the anti-Soga power had become the start of the assassination.
入鹿の暗殺とそれに続く蘇我本宗家の滅亡に関して、近年では、改革の主導権争いを巡る蘇我氏と皇族や反蘇我氏勢力との確執が暗殺のきっかけになったとする見方がある。