Yoji Kondo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yoji Kondo

Japanese astronomer

Date of Birth: 26-May-1933

Place of Birth: Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 09-Oct-2017

Profession: astronomer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Yoji Kondo (?? ??, Kondo Yoji, born 1933, died October 9, 2017) was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani.
He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A.
Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992), and contributed to New Destinies, Vol.
VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A.
Heinlein Memorial Issue (1988), after his friend, writer Robert A.
Heinlein, died in 1988. Kondo also edited the non-fiction book Interstellar Travel & Multi-Generational Space Ships, part of the Apogee Books Space Series. Kondo was also an accomplished teacher of Aikido and Judo.