Toyohiro Akiyama

Status: Retired
6/22/1942 –
Nationality: Japanese
Type: Non-Astronaut Passenger
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Toyohiro Akiyama (born July 22, 1942) is a Japanese TV journalist best known for his flight to the Mir space station aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in 1990. Akiyama is the first person of Japanese nationality to have flown in space.