House of Representatives of the Imperial Diet, the Ministry of Ed-ucation rejected the accusation, saying it was completely groundless. However, Nakajima resigned from his position shortly after. Contemporary researchers believe there are two reasons why Nakajima was accused of advocating for the rejection of the words of the emperor in the form of the Imperial Rescript on Education. The first was a sort of conspiracy among some bureaucrats and scholars of Chinese classics. At the time the Ministry of Education was trying to remove the study of Chinese classics from the middle school curriculum. The scholars who opposed this fabricated a story based on two separate articles from a certain newspaper to manufac-ture the following claim. script on Education, and the Ministry of Education’s appoint-the cultivation of character textbooks equates to blasphemy against the Emperor. The story was used in a campaign spearheaded by rightwing newspa-pers and magazines to use Nakajima as a weapon to attack the Min-istry. In the end, the embattled Ministry made a deal and cancelled the removal of Chinese classics studies. The second reason was a tip-off by someone who had heard Nakajima’s draft proposals. Nakajima personally believed there was an easier way for children to understand cultivation of character and morality. He felt it would be more productive if elementary school textbooks were based on tasks and materials centered on the more Nakajima Tokuzō is an advocate of repealing the Imperial Re-ment of Nakajima as a member of the drafting committee for 124
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