 He returned to America in 1903 at the urging of Iwasaki to look into rice-farming opportunities.During this trip he attended the Second International Socialist Congress in Amsterdam where he gained recognition for shaking hands with the Russian delegate, G. V. Plekhanov, in a gesture of amity between the Russian and Japanese peoples, despite the then-ongoing Russo-Japanese War.In 1904 he attended an American Socialist Party convention in Chicago.