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Toyohiro Akiyama
秋山豊寛
Toyohiro Akiyama in 1990
Born
(1942-06-22) 22 June 1942 (age 82)
Tokyo, Japan
Status
Retired
Nationality
Japanese
Other names
Space journalist[1][2]
Space antihero[3]
Alma mater
International Christian University (BS, 1966?)
Occupation(s)
Journalist (TBS), professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design
Awards
Order of Friendship of Peoples Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
Space career
TBS Research Cosmonaut
Time in space
7d 21h 54min 40sec
Selection
Soyuz TM-11 mission
Missions
Soyuz TM-11 / Soyuz TM-10
Mission insignia
Spouse
Kyoko Akiyama
(m. 1970; div. 1995)
Children
2
Signature
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.[4] He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space,[5] and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded.[4] Akiyama was also the first civilian to fly aboard a commercial space flight and the first journalist to report from outer space.[1][2]
^ ab"日本人初の宇宙飛行士、秋山さんが語る！ 「私が選ばれた」真相 (Mr. Akiyama, the first Japanese astronaut, talks! The truth that "I was chosen")". Weathernews.jp. 2 December 2017. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^ abCite error: The named reference Soyuz TM-11 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^David E. Sanger (8 December 1990). "A Japanese Innovation: The Space Antihero". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017.
^ abBritannica Educational Publishing (2009). Manned Spaceflight. Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 156–157. ISBN 978-1-61530-039-6.
^"Akiyama". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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Global Information
Order of Friendship of Peoples 
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
