Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da kyar ya tsere daga kamawa da kisan kai da Ochrana ya yi sau da yawa tun kafin fara yakin, Akashi ya koma Helsinki a ƙarshen 1904. Ya yi tafiya sosai zuwa Stockholm, Warsaw, Geneva, Lisbon, Paris, Roma, Copenhagen, Zurich, har ma da Irkutsk. Akashi ya taimaka wajen tara kuɗi da makamai ga zaɓaɓɓun rukunin anarchists na Rasha, masu rabuwa a cikin Finland da Poland, da ƙungiyoyin Musulmai marasa gamsuwa a cikin Crimea da Turkestan na Rasha. Akashi ya sadu da Konni Zilliacus a Stockholm da kuma Lenin, sa'an nan a gudun hijira a Switzerland. An yi imani da yawa a Japan cewa Akashi ya kasance a bayan kisan gillar Ministan Harkokin Cikin Gida na Rasha Vyacheslav von Plehve (wanda mutane da yawa a Japan suka dauki alhakin yakin); kazalika da goyon bayan Uba George Gapon, wanda ya shirya tashin hankali na Bloody Sunday
da kuma Potemkin Mutiny. Janar Yamagata Aritomo ya ba da rahoto ga Sarkin Meiji cewa Kanar Akashi ya cancanci "fiye da rukunin sojoji 10 a Manchuria" zuwa ga Japan ta lashe yaƙin. An daukaka Akashi ya zama colonel yana da shekara 40.