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Toyohiro Akiyama | |
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| 秋山豊寛 | |
 Toyohiro Akiyama in 1990 | |
| Born | 22 June 1942 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 _ribbon.svg){kind=small} 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 |  |
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| Children | 2 |
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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.[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]
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Soyuz TM-11was 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.
- ^ a b Britannica 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.
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