 Together with Ume Kenjirō and Tomii Masaaki, he was requested to draft Japan’s Civil Code in 1898.One of his most accomplished students was Kijūrō Shidehara who passed the examination to enter the diplomatic service in 1896, and was Foreign Minister in the 1920s and Prime Minister after World War II.Hozumi was appointed to the House of Peers in 1890, and the Privy Council in 1916.