Toyohiro Akiyama, born in June 22, 1942 Tokyo, Japan, is the first person of Japanese descent to travel into space. He flew aboard Soyuz TM-11, launched December 2, 1990 and spent almost 8 days in space, giving live reports daily from Mir. He returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-10 December 10.
Unfortunately, Akiyama had to evacuate his farm which was affected by the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
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