 Afterwards, he entered the central government bureaucracy, and served in various capacities within the Ministry of Communications and Home Ministry.He was selected as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce under the 3rd Katsura administration from 1912 to 1913, and again to the same portfolio under the Terauchi administration from 1916 to 1918.He was later appointed to a seat in the Upper House of the Diet of Japan, and served on the Privy Council.