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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.
Akiyama Toyohiro (born July 22, 1942, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese journalist and television reporter, the first Japanese citizen and the first journalist to travel into space. Akiyama was also the first fare-paying civilian passenger (nonprofessional astronaut) to participate in a spaceflight.
Toyohiro Akiyama: Cautionary tales from one not afraid to risk all. Astronaut-newshound -professor Toyohiro Akiyama explains how the farming life helps him plow fertile political ground in...
A 48-year-old reporter, not an astronaut, blasting off into space for a ratings boost. That's the incredible story of Toyohiro Akiyama, the first journalist ...
Dec 9, 2020 · Toyohiro Akiyama, then head of the Washington bureau of the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), a television and radio broadcaster, was among the journalists who reported the Challenger disaster to the people of Japan.
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.
Jan 26, 1991 · Patrick Collins praises the Japanese broadcaster who flew to Mir in 1991 and made space travel commercial. He criticizes the Western media and scientists for sneering at Akiyama's flight and experiment.
