Today's academy, however, is skeptical about the methodology itself which seeks to understand the Yamataikoku study by identifying Toyo as someone in myths or someone in genealogical chart of "Kiki" (Kojiki and Nihonshoki; "A Record of Ancient Matter" and "Chronicles of Japan").
しかしながら、現在の学界では、台与を記紀の神話や系譜上の誰かに当てて邪馬台国論を理解しようとする方法論そのものに懐疑的である。