and discussions about socialism. Ujou's "Akai Kutsu" should be seen as a metaphor for the frustrations of the Utopian Socialist movement. Ai argues that Kikuchi filled the holes in his research with his imagination, but Kikuchi insists there are no errors in the basis of his theory. Ai also insists that, based on Noguchi Nobuya's (Ujou's son) research, "Ujou's nursery rhymes, of which "Akai Kutsu" is included, are not about any particular person." On the other hand, Kukichi states that "Akai Kutsu" and some of Ujou's other works are in fact referring to particular people. The two are even in disagreement about the interpretation of "Shabondama" in which the line "So soon after it was born, it broke and was no more" may express Ujou's sorrow over the premature death of his eldest daughter The two are in complete agreement on the fact that Kayo honestly spent her life believing Kimi had been adopted by missionaries and gone to America. However, the two and their supporters disagree on whether those missionaries were the real-life Hewitts (Kikuchi's theory) or if they were just fabrications created by Sano (Ai's theory). Ai says that "Kikuchi is damaging the good name of the Hewitts, who never even met Kimi, with his fictional story that he created for a TV program." Furthermore, Ai is trying to substantiate his theory that Ujou's "Akai Kutsu" is not about Kimi while at the same time criticizing that the story of Ujou writing the poem after hearing from Kayo about Kimi's adoption is "just a further embellishment of the boasting based on Kayo's bad assumption, by Kikuchi and Sono." However it is a fact that Kayo told Sono that "Ujou-san wrote a poem about Kimi." For that reason it is impossible to reject the interpretation from Kayo. Because the theories about Ujou, Kayo's interpretation, and the validity of Kikuchi's data collection process are a disorganized mess of debate, no consensus has been reached. In order to refute Kikuchi's book and Sono's statement that "Kayo spoke to the Noguchi's about Kimi," Ai is performing a thorough investigation into his own theory that "Kayo didn't have many opportunities to talk to the Noguchi's and wasn't close enough with them to speak of such things." On the other hand, because the two sides aren't in disagreement about the possibility that the Suzuki's could have told Ujou about Kimi or that Ujou may