Toyohiro Akiyama (秋山 豊寛, Akiyama Toyohiro; 22 July 1942 – 26 August 2026) 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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🎓 International Christian University🏫 Kogyokusha High School📅 Born June 22🎂 Born 1942📍 From Tokyo💼 Journalist💼 Scholar・Professor・Associate Professor