After he came back to Japan, in 1874, he entered a government-controlled newspaper company, Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper (main writer, and later president) and became very famous as a journalist.
帰国後の1874年、政府系の東京日日新聞に入社し（主筆、のち社長）、ジャーナリストとして大いに筆名を上げた。