1942 - Today
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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Among astronauts, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 97 out of 524. Before 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.
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 91
1932 - 2023
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 92
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 93
1941 - 2018
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 94
1932 - 2002
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 95
1965 - Present
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 96
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 97
1933 - 2003
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 98
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 99
1930 - 1987
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 100
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 101
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 102
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 103
Among people born in 1942, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 286. Before 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.
1942 - 1989
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 280
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 281
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 282
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 283
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 284
1942 - 2016
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 285
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 286
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 287
1942 - 1994
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 288
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 289
1942 - 2021
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 290
1942 - 2020
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 291
1942 - 2019
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 292
Among people born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 878 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 872
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 873
1533 - 1587
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 874
1868 - 1903
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 875
1927 - 2019
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 876
1936 - 2019
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 877
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 878
1951 - 2009
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 879
1888 - 1948
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 880
1811 - 1864
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 881
1536 - 1612
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 882
1923 - 1996
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 883
1967 - Present
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 884
Among astronauts born in Japan, Toyohiro Akiyama ranks 1. After 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).
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 3
1948 - Present
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 5
1963 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 6
1954 - Present
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 7
1970 - Present
HPI: 39.59
Rank: 8
1964 - Present
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 9
1970 - Present
HPI: 33.38
Rank: 10
1975 - Present
HPI: 31.59
Rank: 11
1976 - Present
HPI: 30.42
Rank: 12