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Toyohiro Akiyama

1942 - Today

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Toyohiro Akiyama (秋山 豊寛, Akiyama Toyohiro; born 22 July 1942) is a retired Japanese TV journalist and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. In December 1990, he spent seven days aboard the Mir space station. He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded. Akiyama was also the first civilian to fly aboard a commercial space flight and the first journalist to report from outer space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toyohiro Akiyama is the 67th most popular astronaut (up from 125th in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,016th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 67 out of 556. Before him are Michael P. Anderson, Christa McAuliffe, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Sunita Williams, Bruce McCandless II, and Claude Nicollier. After him are Barry E. Wilmore, Georgy Beregovoy, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Toktar Aubakirov, and Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 201. Before him are Jim Rogers, Tony Sirico, Nguyễn Minh Triết, Pierre Clémenti, Valeriy Brumel, and Zhou Yongkang. After him are Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Michel Kafando, Aritatsu Ogi, Chris Sarandon, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Brandon deWilde.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 706 out of 6,245. Before him are Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Hōjō Sōun (1432), Toru Iwatani (1955), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), and Nitobe Inazō (1862). After him are Osami Nagano (1880), Hōnen (1133), Taro Kagawa (1922), Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), and Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

Among astronauts born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 1. After him are Chiaki Mukai (1952), Koichi Wakata (1963), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Takao Doi (1954), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Soichi Noguchi (1965), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), Takuya Onishi (1975), Naoko Yamazaki (1970), Kimiya Yui (1970), and Norishige Kanai (1976).

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