Ōuchi Hyōei, another member of the study group, became the editor of the department's new research journal, and published an article that Morito had submitted.

The article was a discussion of Peter Kropotkin's theories and a criticism of Japan's political systems.

[2] The Home Ministry made them stop distributing the journal on December 27, 1919, on the grounds that Morito's article advocated for anarchism.

After serving his sentence, Morito followed Takano to the Ohara Institute for Social Research [ja].

[1] Morito worked at the Ohara Institute until he ran for office in 1946 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party.