Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Achipukunyuka kubatwa nokupondwa neOkrana kanoverengeka kunyange hondo isati yatanga, Akashi akatamira kuHelsinki mukupera kwa1904. Akafamba zvikuru achienda kuStockholm, Warsaw, Geneva, Lisbon, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, Zurich, uye kunyange Irkutsk. Akashi akabatsira kutumira mari nezvombo kumapoka akasarudzwa evaanarchist vokuRussia, vaipandukira muFinland nePoland, uye mapoka evaMuslim asina kugutsikana muCrimea neRussian Turkestan. Akashi akasangana naKonni Zilliacus muStockholm pamwe chete naLenin, panguva iyoyo akanga ari muSwitzerland. Zvinodavirwa zvikuru muJapan kuti Akashi akanga ari shure kwokupondwa kwaGurukota reMukati meRussia Vyacheslav von Plehve (uyo vazhinji muJapan vakafunga kuti ndiye anokonzera hondo); pamwe chete nokutsigira Baba George Gapon, avo vakanga varonga
Kumukira kweSvondo ine Ropa uye Kupandukira kwaPotemkin. Mukuru mukuru Yamagata Aritomo akashuma kuna Mambo Meiji kuti Colonel Akashi akanga akakosha "kupfuura mapoka 10 emauto muManchuria" nokuda kwokukunda kweJapan hondo. Akashi akasimudzirwa kuva mukuru mukuru pazera ramakore 40.