Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan haka, ya yi aiki a Babban Ofishin Janar na Imperial a matsayin shugaban ma'aikatan Babban Jami'in Horar da Sojoji. Ya sami lambar yabo ta Palgwae a shekarar 1904. A watan Janairun 1905, ya sami mukamin Laftanar Janar, kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka ya karɓi umarnin sabon da aka ɗaga, 14,000 mai ƙarfi IJA 13th Division, wanda ya jagoranci a lokacin
mamayewar Sakhalin. Saboda nasarar da ya samu a yaƙin, an ba shi taken baron ("danshaku") a ranar 21 ga Satumba, 1907.