Japanese government twice during particularly sensitive international incidents: the first time was after the Otsu Scandal, when Russian Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch (the future Tsar Nicholas II), was assaulted by a Japanese policeman in 1891; and the second time when the Chinese diplomat Li Hung-chang was shot while attending the Shimonoseki Peace Conference in 1895 which ended the First Sino-Japanese War. For his services, Emperor Meiji awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasures. Scriba died of a lung abscess in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture in 1905, and was buried in the foreign section of Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. References 1848 births 1905 deaths Physicians from Darmstadt German expatriates in Japan Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan Foreign educators in Japan Academic staff of the University of Tokyo German surgeons Deaths from lung abscess Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure Burials in Japan