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ASTRONAUT

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toyohiro Akiyama has received more than 250,687 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Toyohiro Akiyama is the 97th most popular astronaut (down from 81st in 2019), the 878th most popular biography from Japan (down from 807th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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  • 250k

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  • 51.07

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 97 out of 524Before him are Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Walter Cunningham, Ulf Merbold, Vladimir Lyakhov, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, and Sunita Williams. After him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Muhammed Faris, Donn F. Eisele, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Dirk Frimout, and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 286Before him are Huey P. Newton, Jean Ping, Gianfranco Ravasi, Vera Alentova, Andrew Robinson, and Roberto Perfumo. After him are Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Gary Kildall, Galina Kulakova, Casimir Oyé-Mba, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and Carol Lynley.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 878 out of 6,048Before him are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Kafū Nagai (1879), Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Sadako Ogata (1927), and Kazuo Koike (1936). After him are Kazumi Takada (1951), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), and Takehito Koyasu (1967).

Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

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