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 316,512 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Toyohiro Akiyama is the 125th most popular astronaut (down from 97th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from Japan (down from 875th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 125 out of 556. Before him are Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Levchenko, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Muhammed Faris, Shannon Lucid, and Boris Yegorov. After him are Aleksei Yeliseyev, Vitaly Zholobov, Anatoly Solovyev, Georgy Shonin, Oleg Kononenko, and Valery Rozhdestvensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 325. Before him are Jon Finch, Al Jardine, Eduard Markarov, Ghada al-Samman, Shukri Ghanem, and Irm Hermann. After him are Bill Ivy, Erika Blanc, Chantal Goya, Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Adolf Ogi, and Dick Parry.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 1,016 out of 6,245. Before him are Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Kunio Yanagita (1875), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Toshio Furukawa (1946), and Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928). After him are Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Damo Suzuki (1950), Homare Sawa (1978), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ogyū Sorai (1666), and Hiroshi Nakajima (1928).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Japan

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

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