The relationship with Shinpei and Yasuda continued, and when YASUBA became the governor of Fukushima Prefecture after participating in the delegation of Tomomi IWAKURA and homecoming, Shinpei returned to Fukushima to count on Yasuba and entered Fukushima International Study School when he was sixteen years old.
安場との縁はその後も続き、安場が岩倉使節団に参加して帰国した直後に福島県令となると新平は安場を頼り、16歳で福島洋学校に入った。