 There are plaques in the building commemorating consulate employees who died in the earthquake, as well as British sailors who died during the British Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863.The British Court for Japan, under the British Supreme Court for China and Japan, sat in the consulate compound from 1879 to 1900.Prior to that the British Provincial Court for Kanagawa sat in the compound from 1865 to 1878.