Toyohiro Akiyama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Toyohiro Akiyama

Japanese TV journalist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Profession: astronaut, reporter, journalist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Toyohiro Akiyama (?? ??, Akiyama Toyohiro, born 22 July 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.
He was known as the "Space Journalist" (?????) in Japan.