In the book 'History of Japan' he wrote in 1874, he introduced Hakodate Seicho as a "Republic", and after that, the people who used his expression got the majority.
彼が1874年に書いた著書「HistoryofJapan」において、箱館政庁を"Republic"と紹介し、その後、アダムズの表現に倣う者が大多数となった。