Toyohiro Akiyama made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Toyohiro Akiyama as first Japanese astronaut.
Toyohiro Akiyama was born at Setagaya in 1942. His recorded nationality is Japan. He was educated at International Christian University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as journalist, astronaut and reporter.
His affiliations include Kyoto University of the Arts and Design, TBS Holdings Inc. and British Broadcasting Corporation.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" and Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Working from Japan shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Toyohiro Akiyama is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Kyoto University of the Arts and Design, TBS Holdings Inc. and British Broadcasting Corporation
- Educated at International Christian University
- Worked as journalist, astronaut and reporter
