The reception and impact of "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" were quite different in Japan and the West, however, with Japanese scholars such as Inoue Tetsujirō and Tsuda Sokichi criticizing or dismissing the book. It was not until the 1980s that "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" reached the height of its popularity in Japan, and is now the most widely available work on the subject of bushido. In the West, "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" has been a best-seller since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, and many influential foreigners read the book, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. It suggested to H. G. Wells a way to "solve the problem of combining progress with political stability".