In the same year, the Mission came back to Japan, and SAIGO and the administrator of Ministry of Justice, Shinpei ETO resigned from their post due to the political upheaval of the 6th year of Meiji triggered by Seikanron.
同年には使節団が帰国し、征韓論を巡る明治六年の政変で西郷、司法卿江藤新平らが下野し、大久保利通政権が確立する。