Kume affair
The Kume affair refers to the controversial forced resignation of Kume Kunitake from the University of Tokyo in Japan during the Meiji Era. The controversy was centered around Kunitake's analysis of historic documents retracing the mythological foundation of Japan. In the October 1891 edition of Shigaku zasshi, he argued that Shintoism is an outdated religious belief; an assertion that shook the Meiji establishment, whose State Shintoism was based in the divine origin of the emperor.
