"Datsu-A Ron" did not attract any comment upon its publication in 1885. Hirayama found no references to it in "Jiji Shinpo" after March 16, 1885 or in "Tokyo Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun", "Yubin Houchi Shinbun", or "Choya Shinbun" between March 17 and March 27, and concluded that it was effectively forgotten for the next 48 years. On July 1933, Keio Gijyuku included the editorial in volume 2 of "Zoku-Fukuzawa Zenshū" (, "The Continued Complete Works of Fukuzawa"). Since then, Fukuzawa has been considered to be the writer. No further comment occurred from 1933 to 1951.