 The negotiations were protracted and ultimately unsuccessful; he left Berlin in 1882, moved to Rome in 1884, returned to Japan in 1885, and moved to London in 1892 to assist Aoki Shūzō in the successful conclusion of the 1894 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation.In August 1910, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures (2nd class).He died at Pegli on the French Riviera in January 1911.