During late 1891, Hearn started teaching in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, at the Fifth Higher Middle School. He worked there for three years and completed his book "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" (1894). In October 1894, he got a job as a journalist with the English-language newspaper "Kobe Chronicle". In 1896, he began teaching English literature at Tokyo Imperial University. He taught there until 1903. In 1904, he became a professor at Waseda University.