Kunitake KUME was dismissed as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University and the volumes of 'Shigaku zasshi' (Journal of Historical Studies) and 'Shikai' which carried his treatises were suppressed by the Minister of Home Affairs, Yajiro SHINAGAWA.
久米邦武は帝国大学教授職非職となり、『史学雑誌』『史海』の論文が掲載された該当号は内務大臣(日本)品川弥二郎により発禁処分。