In the period before World War II there was a political conflict between supporters of Hepburn romanization and supporters of Nihon-shiki romanization.
J. Marshall Unger, author of Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan : Reading between the Lines, said that the Hepburn supporters "understandably" believed that the Kunrei-shiki "compromise" was not fair, because of the presence of the "un-English-looking spellings" that the Modified Hepburn supporters had opposed [REF].