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Toyohiro Akiyama 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. 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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1942  Wikimedia, Wikidata
engineer, journalist, reporter, Research Cosmonaut, astronaut, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration", 

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  Soyuz TM-10 ⓘ
  1990 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

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  Soyuz TM-11 ⓘ
  11th expedition to the Mir space station

Japan, 

1942-07-22T00:00:00Z

1942-07-22T00:00:00Z

1942 Toyohiro Akiyama

1990-08-01T00:00:00Z

1990-08-01T00:00:00Z

1990 Soyuz TM-10

1990-12-02T00:00:00Z

1990-12-02T00:00:00Z

1990 Soyuz TM-11

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Toyohiro Akiyama

Toyohiro Akiyama

The astronaut is Toyohiro Akiyama. (6524026039)

The astronaut is Toyohiro Akiyama. (6524026039)

Soyuz TM-11 Crew Portrait

Soyuz TM-11 Crew Portrait

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	spaceflight	1990	Soyuz TM-10	Gennadi Strekalov, Gennady Manakov, Soyuz-TM, Toyohiro Akiyama, human spaceflight	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	1990	Soyuz TM-11	Helen Sharman, Musa Manarov, Soyuz-TM, Toyohiro Akiyama, Viktor Afanasyev, human spaceflight	Wikidata
commons	image		Toyohiro Akiyama		Commons
commons	image		Toyohiro Akiyama		Commons
commons	image		The astronaut is Toyohiro Akiyama. (6524026039)		Commons
commons	image		The astronaut is Toyohiro Akiyama. (6524026039)		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz TM-11 Crew Portrait		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz TM-11 Crew Portrait		Commons