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In his role as Foreign Minister, Inoue engaged in negotiations with representatives of the Western powers, seeking revisions of the [[Unequal Treaties]]; these negotiations began in [[1882]] and continued until 1887, when they fell through. In the wake of being severely criticized within Japan for offering certain concessions, Inoue resigned his post that September.

In his role as Foreign Minister, Inoue engaged in negotiations with representatives of the Western powers, seeking revisions of the [[Unequal Treaties]]; these negotiations began in [[1882]] and continued until 1887, when they fell through. In the wake of being severely criticized within Japan for offering certain concessions, Inoue resigned his post that September.

Inoue's daughter [[Inoue Sueko]] served as interpreter for the Empress on the occasion of the visit of King [[Kalakaua]] of Hawaii in [[1881]], as well as presumably on other occasions.

Inoue's daughter [[Inoue Sueko]] served as interpreter for the Empress on the occasion of the visit of King [[Kalakaua]] of Hawaii in [[1881]], as well as presumably on other occasions. His son, [[Inoue Katsunosuke]], also served as a government official, traveling for example to Hawaii in [[1885]] as a special commissioner to investigate allegations of brutal treatment of Japanese [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|contract laborers]] there.<ref>Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 22.</ref>

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