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In January 1891, Uchimura Kanzo in attendance at a ceremony to acknowledge the Imperial Rescript on Education, failed to bow deeply, and thereby became embroiled in the controversy known as the "Disrespect Incident". Thereafter, the debate on the "clash between education and religion" that he engaged in with Tokyo University professor Inoue Tetsujiro grew into a great social issue involving the worlds of religion and education. In the end, because of the Disrespect Incident, Kanzo was fired from his school and spent several years going about without a proper job, and in January 1897, some six years after the incident, he was hired at "Yorozu Choho" and became Chief Editor of its English column. While raising many issues, both foreign and domestic, through this English column, he especially made the pages of this magazine a forum in which to elucidate upon the Disrespect Incident. From this standpoint, this paper analyzes the Disrespect Incident and his writings in the English column, and also examines what it was that he was consistently arguing were true disrespect and true patriotism through his activities in the English column.