He acknowledged a need for the enactments of factory acts from the perspective of 'the development of healthy citizens', and he strongly insisted on his opinion in front of those who were against the acts including Eichi SHIBUSAWA (who later changed his position to the consenting party) in a meeting of the Superior Council of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce held in 1896.
彼は「健全なる国民の発育」の観点から工場法の制定の必要を認めており、1896年の農商工高等会議ではこれに反対する渋沢栄一（のち賛成に転じた）らを前に自説を強く主張した。