Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - 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 kafa, mai ƙarfi 14,000 na IJA 13th Division, wanda ya jagoranci yayin mamayewar Sakhalin
Ka yi haƙuri. Saboda nasarar da ya samu a yaƙin, an ba shi taken baron ("danshaku") a ranar 21 ga Satumba, 1907.