Although the 'philosophy of world history' was criticized as being the ideology of the kokutai (national polity) by the Kodo-ha ('Imperial Way' faction) of the Imperial Japanese Army, there is another view that it was heavily based on Shumei OKAWA's "Colonization in Early-modern European History."
「世界史の哲学」は大日本帝国陸軍の皇道派により国体思想として攻撃されていたが、大川周明『近世欧羅巴植民史』の亜流とする説もある。