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Toyohiro Akiyama

First Japanese astronaut

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born: 1942
died: 2026
age at death: 84
known for: journalist, astronaut, reporter

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Toyohiro Akiyama was a Japanese television journalist and academic who was a 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.

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