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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...
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  • 1888–1974), Japanese chef Toyohiro Akiyama (秋山 豊寛, born 1942), Japanese television journalist and cosmonaut Yasunari Akiyama (秋山 安成, born 1948), Japanese...
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    official Japanese space program. The first Japanese person in space, Toyohiro Akiyama, was a journalist who was trained in the Soviet Union. Born in Yoichi...
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    cosmonauts during ascent for Akiyama's network. Viktor Afanaseyev, Musa Manarov (on his second Mir visit), and Toyohiro Akiyama were welcomed aboard Mir by...
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    Station Mir. TM-10 marked the return to Earth of Japanese reporter Toyohiro Akiyama. The Soyuz arrived at Mir's aft port with four passengers: quail for...
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    are not part of any national astronaut program or astronaut corps (Toyohiro Akiyama, Helen Sharman, the Space Adventures customers and the sub-orbital...
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  • For $28 million, Toyohiro Akiyama, was flown in 1990 to Mir with the eighth crew and returned a week later with the seventh crew. Akiyama gave a daily television...
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    (TBS) offered to pay for one of its reporters to fly on a mission. Toyohiro Akiyama was flown in 1990 to Mir with the eighth crew and returned a week later...
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    person flew as a commercial, non-governmental space traveller. Apart from Akiyama and Sharman, these space travellers are known as space tourists. In 1993...
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    mission to the Mir space station. The Soviet Union had recently flown Toyohiro Akiyama, a Japanese journalist, under a similar arrangement. A call for applicants...
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  • Boys) June 21 – Flaviano Vicentini, Italian cyclist (d. 2002) June 22 Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese cosmonaut Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger...
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  • would lead to hate crimes. Space travel was also an influence after Toyohiro Akiyama became the first Japanese person to travel to space in 1990. Concurrently...
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    Manarov, launched along with space journalist Toyohiro Akiyama on December 2, 1990 aboard Soyuz TM-11. Akiyama returned aboard Soyuz TM-10 with the outgoing...
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    Toyohiro Akiyama, joint 239th person and the first journalist and the first Japanese in space on the first commercially organized spaceflight....
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    Russia Soyuz and Soyuz/Mir: Musa Manarov, Viktor Afanasyev – Russia Toyohiro Akiyama – Japan STS-35, Mir EO-7, Soyuz TM-10Soyuz TM-11 USSR USA Japan 2 December...
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    Institute of Technology who flew on STS-9 in 1983. In December 1990, Toyohiro Akiyama became the first paying space traveler and the first journalist in...
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    evaluations by the Soviet Union, Toyohiro Akiyama and Ryoko Kikuchi emerged as the final candidates. In October 1989, Akiyama and Kikuchi traveled to the astronaut...
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  • Space Shuttle program. The first Japanese citizen to fly in space was Toyohiro Akiyama, a journalist sponsored by TBS, who flew on the Soviet Soyuz TM-11...
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    Wubbo J. Ockels Mohammed Faris Abdul Ahad Mohmand Rodolfo Neri Vela Toyohiro Akiyama 1990s 83 Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Krikalev and William M. Shepherd, first...
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    beetles (Trigonoscelis gigas). China launched guinea pigs in 1990. Toyohiro Akiyama, a Japanese journalist, carried Japanese tree frogs with him during...
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    have not been adopted. The first Japanese citizen to fly in space was Toyohiro Akiyama, a journalist sponsored by TBS, who flew on the Soviet Soyuz TM-11...
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    astronauts occurred over the course of seven long-duration expeditions. Toyohiro Akiyama – Kosmoreporter (1990)  Japan Chris Hadfield – STS-74 (1995)  Canada...
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    tourists Soviet Space Agency/TBS mission (1990: TM-11/TM-10 to Mir) Toyohiro Akiyama Soviet Space Agency/Project Juno (1991: TM-12/TM-11 to Mir) Helen Sharman...
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    flight to Mir, with Gennady Manakov and Japanese reporter-cosmonaut Toyohiro Akiyama. At 130 days, this was his longest spaceflight. After this, Strekalov...
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    Betsy Boze (née: Vogel), CEO and dean of Kent State University Stark Toyohiro Akiyama, the first journalist and the first Japanese person in space on the...
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    Future. Archived from the original on 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2012-05-10. Toyohiro Akiyama (April 14, 1993). "The Pleasure of Spaceflight". Journal of Space Technology...
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  • Duncan Steel (born 1955), British astronomer MPC · 4713 4714 Toyohiro 1989 SH Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese cosmonaut MPC · 4714 4715 Medesicaste 1989 TS1 Medesicaste...
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    Pleasure of Spaceflight Archived 2012-02-21 at the Wayback Machine", Toyohiro Akiyama, Journal of Space Technology and Science, Vol.9 No.1 spring 1993, pp...
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    1)  Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA ジャクサ 1 Oct 2003 (Toyohiro Akiyama) (Ohsumi) (Ohsumi)  Kazakhstan National Space Agency of the Republic...
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    the first self-funded space tourist from Japan and Asia (journalist Toyohiro Akiyama flew on Soyuz TM-11 in 1990, and could be regarded as the first space...
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