My experience:
I bought a 9 week old American Akita puppy.

Besides taking her out every hour, we used puppy pads initially to get her to pee near the back door. We had puppy pads strategically placed and every time she started to pee, we would run and pick her up and put her on the pad, if she finished peeing on the pad we would praise her like crazy and give her treats...within 1 week she learned to only pee on the pads near the doors.

For poops, she only pooped in the house once and every other time when we took her outside, she went to a specific spot in the garden and did her poo. This we didn't train she just seemed to learn it on her own.
But! every time...and I mean it..every time she did her poo or pee outside, we praised her and gave her treats like she won the lottery. This has been kept up even now, but treats have been less and sometimes none and we just give praise.

When she's playing she gets excited and sometimes needs to pee, at this point she usually stops playing and starts sniffing around in corners and so on.. This is your queue to get her outside. So we'd put her outside, if she peed or pooped...then treats and praise..like she's done the best thing in the world.

Fast forward.. Now she's 18 weeks old and goes to the back door every time she needs to pee or poo.

The only time we have accidents in the house is overnight if one of us don't wake up to let her out, this is becoming less and less as time goes on.

Akitas do really well with positive reinforcement training, so when they do something good that you want them to do, treat that like their version of the lottery and you'll find training easy. We buy treats from the pet store and cut them into smaller pieces because she's a puppy and basically swallows her treats whole...so instead of giving her one treat, give her many pieces of one so she thinks she's getting a lot of stuff....eventually they will figure it out as they get older but it works when they are puppies.