 This story provoked fury in the Imperial Household Agency and among Japanese ultra-nationalists.On February 1, 1961, in response to the story, Kazutaka Komori, a seventeen-year-old rightist, broke into the home of Shimanaka Hoji, Chūōkōron's president, killed his maid with a sword and severely wounded his wife.Fukazawa went into hiding and was little seen in public afterwards.