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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...
秋山 豊寛 （あきやま とよひろ、 1942年 〈 昭和 17年〉 6月22日 - ）は、 日本 の ジャーナリスト 、 ソビエト連邦 第3級宇宙飛行士、世界初の民間人宇宙飛行士、 京都造形芸術大学 芸術学部元 教授 、 2017年 4月 から 三重県 大台町 在住 [1] 。 元 TBS [注釈 1] 記者・ ワシントン 支局長。 TBSスパークル 所属。 TBSに勤務していた 1989年 から 1990年 にかけて、民間人では初めて商業宇宙飛行を利用するとともに、ジャーナリストでは初めて宇宙空間から宇宙を報道 [2] 。 現在は、初めて宇宙に行った日本人として、 宇宙探検家協会 （ASE、“宇宙飛行を経験した宇宙飛行士”の国際団体）の会員にもなっている。
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.
Jan 26, 1991 · On 2 December, Toyohiro Akiyama, a journalist from Tokyo Broadcasting System, the largest television company in Japan, flew with two Soviet cosmonauts to the Mir space station where he lived for...
Apr 6, 2017 · Toyohiro Akiyama was a 47-year-old, chain-smoking journalist when he made history. His arrival in space was decided by the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), which was trying to find a...
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.
Dec 3, 1990 · The reporter, Toyohiro Akiyama, is the first journalist ever sent into space. But more important to this country, uncertain where its own space program is going, he is also the first...
Toyohiro Akiyama was the first Japanese in orbit and the first fee-paying space passenger. Born on 25 October 1943, in Yokohama, Japan he became a reporter for the TBS television station and television personality.
