In 1888, he became Resident Envoy to the United States; in the same year, he succeeded in concluding the Japan-Mexico Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Japan's first equal treaty, with Mexico as Resident Envoy to the United States and Resident Envoy to Mexico. |
明治21年(1888年)、駐米公使となり、同年、駐米公使兼駐メキシコ公使として、メキシコとの間に日本最初の平等条約である日墨修好通商条約を締結することに成功する。 |