have researched the Suzuki family, an investigation of whether Ujou could have known about Kimi would be insufficient. On August 21, 2009, the statue "Kimi-chan" was erected in Hakodate, Hokkaido based on the established theory. However, a newspaper article about the statue's erection pointed out that there are many theories about "Akai Kutsu." Mainichi Shimbun reported that "There are indications that it was written about the setbacks of the Utopian Socialist movement that was based around Shūsui Kōtoku who had led the development of peasant farming, and relatives of Noguchi assert that "there was no real-life model (for the girl in the song)."" Currently the debate on whether or not the Noguchi's relationship with the Suzuki's, who had suffered setbacks in the peasant farming movement, had an effect on Ujou's poems (including "Akai Kutsu") is not making progress. Furthermore, even Ujou's relatives are split on whether his nursery rhymes are about particular people or not. Ujou's granddaughter, Fujiko, as representative of the Ujou Noguchi Memorial Hall, stated in a speech that "Shabondama" expresses his sorrow over the premature death of his daughter. Nobuya and Fujiko also differ on their stance towards the official theory; Nobuya consistently opposes it while Fujiko made a commemorative speech at the celebration of the completion of the "Kimi-chan" statue. However, Nobuya also thinks that Mokichi Noguchi (Ujou's younger cousin), who was a devoted follower of Sen Katayama's theory on Socialism, had a huge effect on Ujou's early poems that weren't nursery rhymes. In her recent work "A Poet of Nostalgia and a Childlike Heart: The Ujou Noguchi Story" Fujiko Noguchi writes that it's natural to think that the fourth stanza in "Akai Kutsu" is about Mokichi (who left for America from Yokohama in 1905 and died in Los Angeles in 1954). In regards to the established theory she writes that while there is no evidence, it is adequate to think that some personal experience of Ujou's became the basis for "Akai Kutsu." Fujiko doesn't touch on Ai's theory in the book. Other debates Even before the publishing of "Hoax: The Unworn Red Shoes", differing opinions on the interpretation of this rhyme were an issue. In 2003 on NHK Educational TV's educational program "A Course About Humans" in a series titled "Why Do People Sing?", Rokusuke Ei stated that he heard from Fujiko Noguchi that "The Aka (red) in "Akai Kutsu" ("Red Shoes") is a reference