 After the end of the war, He was ennobled with the rank of "danshaku" (baron) under the "kazoku" peerage system in August 1895.After the war, he was briefly commandant of the Army Staff College, and was then head of the Japanese military bureau within the Government-General of Taiwan from April 1896.He was promoted to lieutenant general in October 1898 and was placed in command of the newly-formed IJA 8th Division.The infamous Hakkōda Mountains incident in which 199 of 210 members of its 5th Infantry Regiment froze to death in Hakkōda Mountains during training exercise occurred during his command.